# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-o-neill
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:01:31.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-o-neill"
name: "Francis O'Neill"
slug: "francis-o-neill"
description: "Francis O'Neill was an Irish-born American police officer and collector of Irish traditional music. His biographer Nicholas Carolan referred to him as \"the greatest individual influence on the evolution of Irish traditional dance music in the twentieth century\"."
tagline: "American police chief and music collector (1848–1936)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Francis_O%27Neil%2C_Chicago_PD.gif"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1848-08-28"
deathDate: "1936-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.55
  momentum:             2.608695652173913
  historical:           7.880922666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2362056"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "فرنسيس أونيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_O%E2%80%99Neill"
    title: "Francis O’Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_O'Neill"
    title: "Francis O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_O'Neill"
    title: "Francis O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "フランシス・オニール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_O'Neill"
    title: "Francis O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_O'Neill"
    title: "Francis O'Neill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/815bf9cb-bf8f-41e7-9e68-dc843f1f043c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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