# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uta-frith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:00:15.806Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uta-frith"
name: "Uta Frith"
slug: "uta-frith"
description: "Dame Uta Frith is a German-British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor in cognitive development at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL). She pioneered much of the current research into autism and dyslexia. Her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma introduced the cognitive neuroscience of autism. She is credited with creating the Sally–Anne test along with fellow scientists Alan Leslie and Simon Baron-Cohen. Among students she has mentored are Tony Attwood, Maggie Snowling, Simon Baron-Cohen and Francesca Happé."
tagline: "German developmental psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uta_Frith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1941-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump