# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-dibdin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:30.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-dibdin"
name: "Charles Dibdin"
slug: "charles-dibdin"
description: "Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of \"Tom Bowling\",\none of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas The Waterman (1774) and The Quaker (1775), and several novels, memoirs and histories."
tagline: "British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor (1745–1814)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Dibdin_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1745-03-15"
deathDate: "1814-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.54
  momentum:             0.7899159663865546
  historical:           12.95644533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7773961/"
    handle:    "nm7773961"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3imOhziSMdRTBYjiRKFjaY"
    handle:    "3imOhziSMdRTBYjiRKFjaY"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Charles Dibdin"
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    title: "Charles Dibdin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin"
    title: "Charles Dibdin"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin"
    title: "Charles Dibdin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin"
    title: "Charles Dibdin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dibdin"
    title: "Charles Dibdin"
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    title: "ಚಾರ್ಲ್ಸ್ ಡಿಬ್ಡಿನ್"
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    title: "ചാൾസ് ഡിബ്ഡിൻ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump