# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-lightfoot
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:29:10.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-lightfoot"
name: "Gordon Lightfoot"
slug: "gordon-lightfoot"
description: "Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he had numerous gold and platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, \"His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.\""
tagline: "Canadian singer-songwriter (1938–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GordonLightfoot_Interlochen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-11-17"
deathDate: "2023-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  82
  category: null
totalFollowers: 263000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump