# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-ross-q952149
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:25:47.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-ross-q952149"
name: "Alex Ross"
slug: "alex-ross-q952149"
description: "Alex Ross is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Ross has been a staff member of The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His extensive writings include performance and record reviews, industry updates, cultural commentary, and historical narratives in the realm of classical music. He has written three well-received books: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (2007), Listen to This (2011), and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (2020)."
tagline: "American music critic (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Ross_%40_Chicago_Humanities_festival_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.73573200992556
  historical:           12.34057466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "alexrossmusic"
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    handle:    "nm5472230"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alex Ross (music critic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ross_(cr%C3%ADtico_musical)"
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    title: "Alex Ross"
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    title: "Ալեքս Ռոսս"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump