# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-hoffman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:49:49.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-hoffman"
name: "Al Hoffman"
slug: "al-hoffman"
description: "Al Hoffman was a Russian-born American song composer. He was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number-one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today. He was posthumously made a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. The popularity of Hoffman's song, \"Mairzy Doats\", co-written with Jerry Livingston and Milton Drake, was such that newspapers and magazines wrote about the craze. Time magazine titled one article \"Our Mairzy Dotage\". The New York Times simply wrote the headline, \"That Song\"."
tagline: "Russian-born American song composer (1902-1960)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1902-09-25"
deathDate: "1960-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.25
  momentum:             1.978047450231797
  historical:           9.22934
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388800/"
    handle:    "nm0388800"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/609077"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "أل هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ال هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ال هوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hoffman"
    title: "Al Hoffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hoffman"
    title: "Al Hoffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hoffman"
    title: "Al Hoffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アル・ホフマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB"
    title: "Хоффман, Эл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/17051835-d7f4-45ee-b985-a9a640b570fd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2829347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1726480"
    title: "Al Hoffman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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