# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salma-sobhan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:30.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salma-sobhan"
name: "Salma Sobhan"
slug: "salma-sobhan"
description: "Salma Sobhan was a Bangladeshi lawyer, academic and human rights activist. She became the first woman barrister in Pakistan in 1959. A member of the law faculty of the University of Dhaka, she was a co-founder of Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights watchdog. She was also a key figure at the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA)."
tagline: "Bangladeshi lawyer and sister of Princess Sarvath Al Hassan"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1937-08-11"
deathDate: "2003-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.960513333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سلمیٰ سبحان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سلمى سوبهان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "সালমা সোবহান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Salma Sobhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salma_Sobhan"
    title: "Salma Sobhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Salma Sobhan"
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    title: "ਸਲਮਾ ਸੋਭਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سلمیٰ سبحان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சல்மா சோபன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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