# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-kaufman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:34:08.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-kaufman"
name: "Bob Kaufman"
slug: "bob-kaufman"
description: "Robert Garnell Kaufman was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud."
tagline: "African American beat poet (1925–1986)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Bob_Kaufman.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-04-18"
deathDate: "1986-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.243056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442097/"
    handle:    "nm0442097"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Bob Kaufman"
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    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman"
    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bob Kaufman"
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    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman"
    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman"
    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman"
    title: "Bob Kaufman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%84%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Кауфман, Боб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump