# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fanny-crosby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:10:45.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fanny-crosby"
name: "Fanny Crosby"
slug: "fanny-crosby"
description: "Frances Jane van Alstyne, more commonly known as Fanny J. Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. A prolific hymnist, she wrote more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, with more than 100 million copies printed. She is also known for her teaching and rescue mission work. By the end of the 19th century, she had become a household name."
tagline: "19th century Christian hymnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fanny_Crosby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1820-03-24"
deathDate: "1915-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             5.398832684824901
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump