# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cecil-sharp
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:00.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cecil-sharp"
name: "Cecil Sharp"
slug: "cecil-sharp"
description: "Cecil James Sharp was an English collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was a key figure in the folk-song revival in England during the Edwardian period. According to Roud's Folk Song in England, Sharp was the country's \"single most important figure in the study of folk song and music\"."
tagline: "English folk song collector, teacher, songwriter and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cecil_James_Sharp_(1916%2C_full).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1859-11-22"
deathDate: "1924-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.73150266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump