# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/somaya-faruqi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:57:28.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/somaya-faruqi"
name: "Somaya Faruqi"
slug: "somaya-faruqi"
description: "Somaya Faruqi is an Afghan student and engineer, and the captain of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, also known as the \"Afghan Dreamers.\" She was named to the BBC's 100 Women in 2020 and was featured by UNICEF in 2020 as well as the UN Women Generation Equality campaign in 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, her team designed a prototype ventilator to help fight the coronavirus in Afghanistan."
tagline: "Afghanistan robotics expert"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2002"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.671562666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sumaya Faruqiy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF"
    title: "সোমায়া ফারুকি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaya_Faruqi"
    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaya_Faruqi"
    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaya_Faruqi"
    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaya_Faruqi"
    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%86_%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਸੋਮਾਇਆ ਫਾਰੂਕੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C"
    title: "سومیا فاروقی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaya_Faruqi"
    title: "Somaya Faruqi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F"
    title: "Фаруки, Сомая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C"
    title: "سومیا فاروقی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102271635"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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