# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-banton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:26.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-banton"
name: "Hugh Banton"
slug: "hugh-banton"
description: "Hugh Robert Banton is a British musician and electronic organ builder, most widely known for playing organ and keyboards with the group Van der Graaf Generator."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugh_Banton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.894206666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هوج بانتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%92%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヒュー・バントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Banton"
    title: "Hugh Banton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D1%8C%D1%8E"
    title: "Бэнтон, Хью"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a4210337-8d51-496f-a8e3-02bf69fe4c54"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2571320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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