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{{People
|name = Maud Wagner
|image = Maudwagnertattooed-woman.jpg
|birthdate = 1877
|birthplace = Lyons County, Kansas
|deathdate = 30 January 1961
|occupation = [[tattooed lady]], [[tattoo artist]]
|website = none}}

'''Maud Wagner''' (born Maud Stevens February [[1877]] in Lyons County, Kansas) was the first well known woman [[tattoo artist]] in the United States. 

==Biography==
Maud was a circus aerialist and contortionist who learned to tattoo from her husband [[Gus Wagner]]. She received her very first tattoo from Gus when she met him in [[1904]] at the St Louis World's Fair. She married him October 3, [[1904]]. Her daughter [[Lovetta Wagner]] became a well known female artist as well despite having no tattoos herself.

She died on January the 30th, [[1961]] in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma.

[[File:Wagners.jpg|thumb|Maud and Gus Wagner]]

==References==
[http://oldschooltattooexpo.com/wagner.html]

[[Category: Historical Figures|Wagner, Maud]]
[[Category: Tattoo Artists|Wagner, Maud]]