# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-geldof
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:36:19.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-geldof"
name: "Bob Geldof"
slug: "bob-geldof"
description: "Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, political activist, television producer and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions \"Rat Trap\" and \"I Don't Like Mondays\". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's film Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)."
tagline: "Irish singer-songwriter and political activist (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Geldof%2C_Bob_(IMF_2009).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.581316119777658
  historical:           27.898528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002097/"
    handle:    "nm0002097"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://bobgeldof.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "בוב גלדוף"
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    title: "Bob Geldof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bob Geldof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump