# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-dickson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:17:27.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-dickson"
name: "Barbara Dickson"
slug: "barbara-dickson"
description: "Barbara Ruth Dickson is a Scottish singer and actress whose hits include \"I Know Him So Well\", \"Answer Me\" and \"January February\". Dickson has placed fifteen albums on the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including four which reached the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The Scotsman newspaper has described her as Scotland's best-selling female singer in terms of the numbers of hit chart singles and albums she has achieved in the UK since 1976."
tagline: "British singer and actress, recording artist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Dickson_(22280529515).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             0.003974036296198172
  historical:           9.471872000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BarbaraDickson"
    handle:    "BarbaraDickson"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/barbara_dickson_official/"
    handle:    "barbara_dickson_official"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/barbaradicksonofficial"
    handle:    "barbaradicksonofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225618/"
    handle:    "nm0225618"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pi8sj5ExnwL73KjHR2lFR"
    handle:    "5pi8sj5ExnwL73KjHR2lFR"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.barbaradickson.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/264675"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باربارا ديكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Dickson"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/310d4164-d73d-4b52-b985-2aa5b2da1fbd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q807398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1231392"
    title: "Barbara Dickson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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