# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-schwartz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:07.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-schwartz"
name: "Jean Schwartz"
slug: "jean-schwartz"
description: "Jean Schwartz was a Hungarian-born Jewish American composer and pianist. He is best known for his work writing the scores for more than 30 Broadway musicals, and for his creation of more than 1,000 popular songs with the lyricist William Jerome. Schwartz and Jerome also performed together on the vaudeville stage in the United States; sometimes in collaboration with Maude Nugent, Jerome's wife, and the Dolly Sisters. Schwartz was married to Jenny Dolly from 1913 to 1921."
tagline: "Hungarian-born American songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Jerome-Jean_Schwarz.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: "1878-11-04"
deathDate: "1956-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.4
  momentum:             11.81818181818182
  historical:           6.145141333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777268/"
    handle:    "nm0777268"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/783153"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "جان شوارتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schwartz"
    title: "Jean Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schwartz"
    title: "Jean Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schwartz"
    title: "Jean Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ca6adee7-abf8-46ce-aebb-3c8c66f7931c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5706967"
    title: "Jean Schwartz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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