# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/evelyn-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:21.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/evelyn-knight"
name: "Evelyn Knight"
slug: "evelyn-knight"
description: "Evelyn Knight was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Damon Runyon, in one of his newspaper columns, described Knight as \"a lissome blonde lassie with a gentle little voice and a face mother would not mind having brought home to her.\""
tagline: "American recording artist; singer (1917-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Evelyn_Knight_1947.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1917-12-31"
deathDate: "2007-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.477682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739707/"
    handle:    "nm1739707"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1812070"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "إيفيلين ونايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Knight"
    title: "Evelyn Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Knight_(singer)"
    title: "Evelyn Knight (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Knight"
    title: "Evelyn Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Knight"
    title: "Evelyn Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Knight_(kanitan)"
    title: "Evelyn Knight (kanitan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9d8e63e5-6d1b-47a6-83de-e9f09b922099"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5416360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1238729"
    title: "Evelyn Knight"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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