# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-wayne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:01:16.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-wayne"
name: "Jeff Wayne"
slug: "jeff-wayne"
description: "Jeffry Wayne is an American-British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978, he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, including a Gordon's Gin commercial which was covered by the Human League. Wayne also composed numerous television themes, including Good Morning Britain (TV-am), ITV's The Big Match and World of Sport, and the BBC's Sixty Minutes."
tagline: "American-British composer (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JEFFWAYNE2014.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: "1943-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.03989866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915582/"
    handle:    "nm0915582"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bpiFjU6CnEErF1C8gBqvG"
    handle:    "5bpiFjU6CnEErF1C8gBqvG"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://jeffwaynemusic.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيف واين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيف واين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%81_%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جیف واین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Джефф Вейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4af16f2c-89c0-4715-9e76-3aa986f67031"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2732129"
    title: "Jeff Wayne"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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