# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gus-kahn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:15:41.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gus-kahn"
name: "Gus Kahn"
slug: "gus-kahn"
description: "Gustav Gerson Kahn was an American lyricist who contributed a number of songs to the Great American Songbook, including \"Pretty Baby\", \"Ain't We Got Fun?\", \"Carolina in the Morning\", \"Toot, Toot, Tootsie \", \"My Buddy\" \"I'll See You in My Dreams\", \"It Had to Be You\", \"Yes Sir, That's My Baby\", \"Love Me or Leave Me\", \"Makin' Whoopee\", \"My Baby Just Cares for Me\", \"I'm Through with Love\", \"Dream a Little Dream of Me\" and \"You Stepped Out of a Dream\"."
tagline: "German-American lyricist (1886-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gus_Kahn_circa_1927.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: "1886-11-06"
deathDate: "1941-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.76134666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006146/"
    handle:    "nm0006146"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Gus Kahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Kahn"
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    title: "Кан, Гас"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump