# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ira-d-sankey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:39.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ira-d-sankey"
name: "Ira D. Sankey"
slug: "ira-d-sankey"
description: "Ira David Sankey was an American gospel singer and composer, known for his long association with Dwight L. Moody in a series of religious revival campaigns in America and Britain during the closing decades of the 19th century. Sankey was a pioneer in the introduction of a musical style that influenced church services and evangelical campaigns for generations, and the hymns that he wrote or popularized continued to be sung well into the 21st century."
tagline: "American gospel singer and composer (1840-1908)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ira_D._Sankey_cph.3a02058.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: "1840-08-28"
deathDate: "1908-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.56954933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ايرا دى. سانكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_D._Sankey"
    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_D._Sankey"
    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey"
    title: "Ira David Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Sankey"
    title: "Ira Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey"
    title: "Ira David Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_D._Sankey"
    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_D._Sankey"
    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC"
    title: "アイラ・サンキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%9D%B4%EB%9D%BC_D._%EC%83%9D%ED%82%A4"
    title: "아이라 D. 생키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey"
    title: "Ira David Sankey"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_D._Sankey"
    title: "Ira D. Sankey"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%94."
    title: "Санки, Айра Д."
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    title: "Ira David Sankey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q650573"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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