# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wendy-woods
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:48:27.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wendy-woods"
name: "Wendy Woods"
slug: "wendy-woods"
description: "Wendy Heather Woods was a South African educator and anti-apartheid activist. Woods worked with her husband, journalist Donald Woods, on anti-apartheid activities and both fled into exile to the United Kingdom in 1977. Woods herself was an active member of the Black Sash. In exile, Woods worked with various charities and after her husband's death, set up the Donald Woods Foundation. She and her family are featured in the 1987 movie Cry Freedom."
tagline: "South African educator and activist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1941-02-05"
deathDate: "2013-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             4.485981308411214
  historical:           5.750073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wendy Woods"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wendy Woods"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wendy Woods"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wendy Woods"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Woods"
    title: "Wendy Woods"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%88%D9%88%DA%88%D8%B2"
    title: "وینڈی ووڈز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85320996"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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