# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-oakland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:02.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-oakland"
name: "Ben Oakland"
slug: "ben-oakland"
description: "Ben Oakland was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist, most active from the 1920s through the 1940s. He composed mainly for Broadway and vaudeville, though he also worked on several Hollywood scores including for the film My Little Chickadee."
tagline: "American composer, lyricist, and pianist (1907–1979)"
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: "1907-09-24"
deathDate: "1979-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.803708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642992/"
    handle:    "nm0642992"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9d0287e7-3e65-46d1-a0bf-781353a66ee1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بين أوكلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بين اوكلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "بین اوکلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Oakland"
    title: "Ben Oakland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Oakland"
    title: "Ben Oakland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Oakland"
    title: "Ben Oakland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q649938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34173"
    title: "Ben Oakland"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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