# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/venetia-burney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:04:11.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/venetia-burney"
name: "Venetia Burney"
slug: "venetia-burney"
description: "Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old."
tagline: "British schoolteacher, namer of the dwarf planet Pluto"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photo_of_Venetia_Burney%2C_aged_11%2C_c._1929.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1918-07-11"
deathDate: "2009-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.4
  momentum:             0.5517241379310345
  historical:           17.73647066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Venetia Burney"
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    title: "Venetia Burney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump