# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-kleban
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:52:17.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-kleban"
name: "Edward Kleban"
slug: "edward-kleban"
description: "Edward \"Ed\" Kleban was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. Kleban was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1939 and graduated from New York's High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, where he attended with future playwright Terrence McNally."
tagline: "American composer (1939-1987)"
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: "1939-04-30"
deathDate: "1987-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.78
  momentum:             0.2425876010781671
  historical:           9.227360000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458505/"
    handle:    "nm0458505"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ادوارد كليبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ادوارد کلبان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kleban"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Эдвард Клебан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5343953"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3997940"
    title: "Edward Kleban"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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