# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/duke-ellington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:16:12.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/duke-ellington"
name: "Duke Ellington"
slug: "duke-ellington"
description: "Edward Kennedy \"Duke\" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him \"America's most important composer\"."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Duke_Ellington_-_publicity.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1899-04-29"
deathDate: "1974-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 239
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump