# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simone-melchior-cousteau
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:46.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simone-melchior-cousteau"
name: "Simone Melchior Cousteau"
slug: "simone-melchior-cousteau"
description: "Simone Cousteau was a French explorer. She was the first woman scuba diver and aquanaut, and wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau."
tagline: "Wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pres._Kennedy_Awards_the_National_Geographic_Society's_Gold_Medal_to_Jacques_Cousteau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1919-01-19"
deathDate: "1990-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.649366666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1370412/"
    handle:    "nm1370412"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Кусто, Симона"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Сімона Кусто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Melchior"
    title: "Simone Melchior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Cousteau"
    title: "Simone Cousteau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2607385"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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