# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-mclean
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:51:38.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-mclean"
name: "Don McLean"
slug: "don-mclean"
description: "Donald McLean III is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known as the \"American Troubadour\" or \"King of the Trail\", he is best known for his 1971 hit \"American Pie\", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock song that has been referred to as a \"cultural touchstone\". His other hit singles include \"Vincent\", \"Dreidel\", \"Castles in the Air\", and \"Wonderful Baby\", as well as renditions of Roy Orbison's \"Crying\" and the Skyliners' \"Since I Don't Have You\"."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonMcLeanWestport2009.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: "1945-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.600463902580458
  historical:           25.486636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "donmcleanonline"
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    handle:    "thedonmclean"
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    handle:    "DonMcLean"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Don McLean"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump