# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-van-ronk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:53:39.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-van-ronk"
name: "Dave Van Ronk"
slug: "dave-van-ronk"
description: "David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the \"Mayor of MacDougal Street\"."
tagline: "American musician (1936–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Van_Ronk.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: "1936-06-30"
deathDate: "2002-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.99772266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/DaveVanRonkOfficial"
    handle:    "DaveVanRonkOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887874/"
    handle:    "nm0887874"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A4_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "داڤ ڤان رونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%B2_%CE%92%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%A1%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BA"
    title: "Ντέιβ Βαν Ρονκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B2"
    title: "Ван Ронк, Дэйв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Van_Ronk"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E7%BB%B4%C2%B7%E8%8C%83%E6%B4%9B%E5%85%8B"
    title: "戴维·范洛克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c07a8ae5-3322-482f-9bfe-27448a2cf593"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173376"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1179595"
    title: "Dave Van Ronk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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