# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:05:48.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-bentley"
name: "Jay Bentley"
slug: "jay-bentley"
description: "Jayson Dee Bentley is an American bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He has played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1983 and 1985. Along with vocalist Greg Graffin, Bentley has appeared on nearly all of Bad Religion's studio albums, with the sole exception being their second album Into the Unknown (1983)."
tagline: "Bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2018_RiP_-_Bad_Religion_-_by_2eight_-_3SC6644.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             19.83516483516484
  historical:           12.15155466666667
  currentAttention:     22.84
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bentley"
    title: "Jay Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Bentley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump