# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tuna-mascarenhas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:08:50.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tuna-mascarenhas"
name: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
slug: "tuna-mascarenhas"
description: "Antonina Mascarenhas Monteiro, more popularly known as Tuna Mascarenhas, was a Cape Verdean activist and medical laboratory scientist. She served as the First Lady of Cape Verde from 1991 until 2001 during the tenure of her husband, President António Mascarenhas Monteiro. Mascarenhas also founded the Cape Verdean Children's Foundation to provide services, such as daycare centers, to poor children and their families."
tagline: "Cape Verdean chemist and researcher, and former first lady of Cape Verde (1944-2009)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-06-13"
deathDate: "2009-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             9.240506329113925
  historical:           6.338805333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "تونا ماسكارينهاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Mascarenhas"
    title: "Tuna Mascarenhas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27061801"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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