# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharmin-akter
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:50.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharmin-akter"
name: "Sharmin Akter"
slug: "sharmin-akter"
description: "Sharmin Akter is a Bangladeshi activist against child and forced marriages. She resisted her mother's efforts to get her married at the age of 15 to a 32-year-old man and fought to continue her education. A student of Rajapur Pilot Girls High School. She wants to become a lawyer to fight child and forced marriages. She is an International Women of Courage Award recipient."
tagline: "Woman of Courage 2017"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharmin_Akter_IWOC_2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1995-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             6.911764705882352
  historical:           10.53747333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "শার্মিন আক্তার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شەرمین ئەکتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmin_Akter"
    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmin_Akter"
    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmin_Akter"
    title: "Sharmin Akter"
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    title: "شارمین آکتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
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    title: "Sharmin Akter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29885324"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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