# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-leon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:56:59.688Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-leon"
name: "Francis Leon"
slug: "francis-leon"
description: "Francis Leon was an American vaudevillian actor best known as a blackface minstrel performer and female impersonator. He was largely responsible for making the prima donna a fixture of blackface minstrelsy."
tagline: "American entertainer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Francis_Leon_TCS_1.638.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1844"
deathDate: "1883"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.84
  momentum:             1.090342679127726
  historical:           4.812816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرنسيس ليون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leon"
    title: "Francis Leon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leon"
    title: "Francis Leon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leon"
    title: "Francis Leon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Leon"
    title: "Francis Leon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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