# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-penner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:26.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-penner"
name: "Fred Penner"
slug: "fred-penner"
description: "Frederick Ralph Cornelius Penner is a Canadian children's entertainer and musician known for the song \"The Cat Came Back\" and his television series, Fred Penner's Place, which aired on CBC in Canada from 1985 to 1997 and in the United States on Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1993."
tagline: "Canadian children's musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FredPenner2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.96
  momentum:             0.3279424977538186
  historical:           6.682764000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/fpenner5/"
    handle:    "fpenner5"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672094/"
    handle:    "nm0672094"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Aw6rjVbML8tamoAWm2Jpr"
    handle:    "7Aw6rjVbML8tamoAWm2Jpr"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://fredpenner.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1876804"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فريد پينير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Penner"
    title: "Fred Penner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Penner"
    title: "Fred Penner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Penner"
    title: "Fred Penner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Penner"
    title: "Fred Penner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/05d33097-11cb-4388-a1c0-da97540ece4e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q578207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249973"
    title: "Fred Penner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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