# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:53.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-anderson"
name: "Ian Anderson"
slug: "ian-anderson"
description: "Ian Scott Anderson is a British musician best known as the lead vocalist, flautist, and acoustic guitarist of the British rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he has been the only constant member since the band's founding in 1967. A multi-instrumentalist, Anderson also plays harmonica, mandolin, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone and a variety of whistles."
tagline: "Scottish musician, leader of Jethro Tull"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Anderson_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     11.08
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  219
  category: null
totalFollowers: 11700
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump