# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boy-edgar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:05:47.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boy-edgar"
name: "Boy Edgar"
slug: "boy-edgar"
description: "Boy Edgar, pseudonyms of George Willem Fred Edgar, was a Dutch jazz conductor, pianist and trumpeter. He was also a member of the resistance who saved Jewish children during WW2 and was promoted as a doctor after the war on an investigation into multiple sclerosis."
tagline: "Dutch conductor, pianist and trumpeter (1915–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boy_Edgar_(1964).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1915-03-31"
deathDate: "1980-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.77
  momentum:             4.08296943231441
  historical:           7.689886666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1918325"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "بوي إدغار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "بوى ادجار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Edgar"
    title: "Boy Edgar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Edgar"
    title: "Boy Edgar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "بوی ادگار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%B8%D5%B5_%D4%B7%D5%A4%D5%A3%D5%A1%D6%80"
    title: "Բոյ Էդգար"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Edgar"
    title: "Boy Edgar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7b80d2e7-a3a4-4404-b9ac-aec1ba1d6976"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q895829"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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