# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-roth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:17:23.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-roth"
name: "Ed Roth"
slug: "ed-roth"
description: "Edward \"Big Daddy\" Roth was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s."
tagline: "American artist, cartoonist and custom car painter (1932-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Big_Daddy_Ed_Roth.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1932-03-04"
deathDate: "2001-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             1.340354236476783
  historical:           9.655852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1832942"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "إد روث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "اد روث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roth"
    title: "Ed Roth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6e05675b-eba3-4058-9be4-172d33ac9c16"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327871"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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