# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:24:21.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-williams"
name: "Claude Williams"
slug: "claude-williams"
description: "Claude \"Fiddler\" Williams was an American jazz violinist and guitarist who recorded and performed into his 90s. He was the first guitarist to record with Count Basie and the first musician to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American musician (1908–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Claude_Fiddler_Williams_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1908-02-22"
deathDate: "2004-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.13
  momentum:             12.69230769230769
  historical:           7.673038666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/313110"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "كلود وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Williams_(Musiker)"
    title: "Claude Williams (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Williams_(musician)"
    title: "Claude Williams (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Williams"
    title: "Claude Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Williams"
    title: "Claude Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Williams"
    title: "Claude Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4"
    title: "Уильямс, Клод"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b11f8d09-f197-4abe-88b9-1dd9f1821311"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363412"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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