# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yvonne-young-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:38:56.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yvonne-young-clark"
name: "Yvonne Young Clark"
slug: "yvonne-young-clark"
description: "Yvonne Y. Clark was a pioneer for African-American and women engineers. Also known as Y.Y., she was the first woman to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University, the first woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University, and the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University, afterward becoming a professor emeritus."
tagline: "Mechanical engineer (1929-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YvonneYoungClark.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-04-13"
deathDate: "2019-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.40612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Yvonne Clark"
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    title: "إيفون كلارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yvonne Clark"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Clark"
    title: "Yvonne Clark"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump