# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allan-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:58.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allan-williams"
name: "Allan Williams"
slug: "allan-williams"
description: "Allan Richard Williams was a British businessman and promoter who was the original booking agent and first manager of the Beatles. He drove the van to take the young band to Hamburg, West Germany, in 1960, where they gained the vital show business experience that led to their emergence on the world stage. Williams was also a promoter and agent of a number of other Liverpool rock acts, helping stoke the Merseybeat boom of the early 1960s."
tagline: "British talent manager (1930–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/My_Wife(Maria_Jane_Mishina)(Taylor)With_Allan_Williams_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1930-03-17"
deathDate: "2016-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.25
  momentum:             2.334233563047123
  historical:           17.79939333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump