# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-lai
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:13:31.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-lai"
name: "Francis Lai"
slug: "francis-lai"
description: "Francis Albert Lai was a French composer, noted for his film scores. He won the 1970 Oscar for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film Love Story. The soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, \"Where Do I Begin\", was a hit single for Andy Williams."
tagline: "Academy Award-winning French composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Identite-FrancisLai-1954-Sacem.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-04-26"
deathDate: "2018-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  248
  category: null
totalFollowers: 151000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump