# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/delia-derbyshire
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:26:54.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/delia-derbyshire"
name: "Delia Derbyshire"
slug: "delia-derbyshire"
description: "Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She worked with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including an electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has been referred to as \"the unsung heroine of British electronic music\", having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital."
tagline: "English musician and composer of electronic music (1937–2001)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-05-05"
deathDate: "2001-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump