# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vanda-pignato
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:20:00.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vanda-pignato"
name: "Vanda Pignato"
slug: "vanda-pignato"
description: "Vanda Guiomar Pignato is a Brazilian-born Salvadoran lawyer, activist, politician and former First Lady of El Salvador from 2009 until 2014. Pignato became First Lady of El Salvador on 1 June 2009, the same day that her husband, President Mauricio Funes, appointed her as the country's Secretary of Social Inclusion from 2009 to 2014. The appointment made Pignato the first sitting First Lady in El Salvador's history to hold a political position. Funes's successor, President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, reappointed Pignato as Secretary of Social Inclusion when he took office in June 2014."
tagline: "Salvadoran lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pacto_por_la_Igualdad_(25252077739)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1963-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.88
  momentum:             3.3276740237691
  historical:           5.494926666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_Pignato"
    title: "Vanda Pignato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "ڤاندا پيجناتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_Pignato"
    title: "Vanda Pignato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_Pignato"
    title: "Vanda Pignato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_Pignato"
    title: "Vanda Pignato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_Pignato"
    title: "Vanda Pignato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9092579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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