# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-burney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:40:16.190Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-burney"
name: "Charles Burney"
slug: "charles-burney"
description: "Charles Burney was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist and book donor to the British Museum. He was a close friend and supporter of Joseph Haydn and other composers."
tagline: "English music historian (1726-1814)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Burney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1726-04-07"
deathDate: "1814-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             0.5793991416309012
  historical:           19.13575066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump