# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-b-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:27:21.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-b-smith"
name: "Harry B. Smith"
slug: "harry-b-smith"
description: "Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composers Victor Herbert and Reginald De Koven. He also wrote the book or lyrics for several versions of the Ziegfeld Follies."
tagline: "U.S. writer, lyricist and composer (1860–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_B._Smith_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1860-12-28"
deathDate: "1936-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             8.159139784946237
  historical:           8.341073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808431/"
    handle:    "nm0808431"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هاري بي. سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارى بى. سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Smith"
    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Smith"
    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Smith"
    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Smith"
    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_B._Smith"
    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0e23e321-6877-4a04-ba63-dd449f8cd89b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5667065"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Harry B. Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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