# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billy-tipton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:30:42.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billy-tipton"
name: "Billy Tipton"
slug: "billy-tipton"
description: "Billy Lee Tipton was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and talent broker. He is notable for having been posthumously outed as a transgender man."
tagline: "American jazz musician, bandleader and talent agent (1914–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Press_photo_of_the_Billy_Tipton_Trio%2C_c._1966_(cropped%2C_portrait_of_Billy_Tipton).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans man"
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: "1914-12-29"
deathDate: "1989-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.161388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Billy Tipton"
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    title: "Billy Tipton"
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    title: "Billy Tipton"
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    title: "Billy Tipton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump