# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/synthia-saint-james
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:48.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/synthia-saint-james"
name: "Synthia Saint James"
slug: "synthia-saint-james"
description: "Synthia Saint James is an American visual artist, author, keynote speaker, educator and actor in the 70s. She is best known for designing the original cover art of the hardcover edition of Terry McMillan's book Waiting to Exhale. Additionally, Saint James designed the first Kwanzaa stamp for the United States Postal Service, first issued in 1997 and the Kwanzaa Forever Stamp, issued in 2016."
tagline: "American artist (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Synthia_SAINT_JAMES_-_photo_by_Leroy_Hamilton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1949-02-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.608136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416961/"
    handle:    "nm0416961"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%B9_%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "سنتھیا سینٹ جیمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "سينثيا ساينت چيمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthia_Saint_James"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthia_Saint_James"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthia_Saint_James"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthia_Saint_James"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthia_Saint_James"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7662792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1098364"
    title: "Synthia Saint James"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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