# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-macmillan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:24:47.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-macmillan"
name: "Ernest MacMillan"
slug: "ernest-macmillan"
description: "Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan was a Canadian conductor, composer and organist. He was Canada's only \"Musical Knight\", and is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-eminent musician from the 1920s through the 1950s. His contributions to the development of music in Canada were sustained and varied, as conductor, performer, composer, administrator, lecturer, adjudicator, writer, humourist, and statesman."
tagline: "Canadian conductor (1893–1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernest_McMillan_(I0001736).tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1893-08-18"
deathDate: "1973-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.74301733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump