# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/younousse-seye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:59:57.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/younousse-seye"
name: "Younousse Sèye"
slug: "younousse-seye"
description: "Younousse Sèye is a Senegalese artist, poet, and actress. Considered Senegal's first woman painter, she is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells. Having no formal training in either visual art or acting, she achieved success in the post-independence Dakar art scene and appeared in several major films by the Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène."
tagline: "Senegalese artist, painter, and actor"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             14.21052631578947
  historical:           5.737005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younousse_S%C3%A8ye"
    title: "Younousse Sèye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56825077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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