# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-ramsey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:06:23.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-ramsey"
name: "Bill Ramsey"
slug: "bill-ramsey"
description: "William McCreery Ramsey was an American-German jazz and pop singer, journalist and actor famous for his German-language hits. He returned to Germany a year after he had served compulsory military service with the U.S. Air Force there. Active as a singer of jazz and pop already as a soldier, he made a career in different fields of musical entertainment. He sang and recorded German schlager, also German-language cover versions of English hits, jazz and swing. He appeared in films and television series, and ran popular series on radio and television as presenter."
tagline: "German-American jazz and Schlager singer, journalist and actor (1931–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Ramsey_by_Steschke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-04-17"
deathDate: "2021-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.71725733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0708967/"
    handle:    "nm0708967"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5R8T1Sb49NySRp0JKa4ebZ"
    handle:    "5R8T1Sb49NySRp0JKa4ebZ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ramsey.de"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/113091"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2%D9%8A"
    title: "بيل رمزي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2%D9%89"
    title: "بيل رمزى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey"
    title: "Bill Ramsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey_(singer)"
    title: "Bill Ramsey (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B2%DB%8C_(%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "بیل رمزی (خواننده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey"
    title: "Bill Ramsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey_(S%C3%A4nger)"
    title: "Bill Ramsey (Sänger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey"
    title: "Bill Ramsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ramsey"
    title: "Bill Ramsey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B3%DB%8C_(%DA%AF%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "بل رمسی (گلوکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7beec8e4-95d4-4bcf-8e03-42121552984e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97341"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46109"
    title: "Bill Ramsey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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