# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-simmons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:16:51.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-simmons"
name: "Ruth Simmons"
slug: "ruth-simmons"
description: "Ruth Simmons is an American professor and academic administrator. Simmons served as the eighth president of Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black university (HBCU), from 2017 until 2023. From 2001 to 2012, she served as the 18th president of Brown University, where she was the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution. During her time at Brown, Simmons was named the best college president by Time magazine. Prior to Brown University, she headed Smith College, one of the Seven Sisters and the largest women's college in the United States, beginning in 1995. During her tenure, Smith College launched the first accredited engineering program at an all-women's college."
tagline: "American academic and administrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DrRuthJSimmons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-07-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.64356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "روث جان سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "روث جان سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_J._Simmons"
    title: "Ruth J. Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Simmons"
    title: "Ruth Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Simmons"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541673"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump