# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-carroll
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:19.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-carroll"
name: "Jim Carroll"
slug: "jim-carroll"
description: "James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song \"People Who Died\" with the Jim Carroll Band."
tagline: "American author, poet, and punk musician (1949–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Carroll_-_Seattle_WA_-_September_2000_-_Photo_by_Eric_Thompson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-08-01"
deathDate: "2009-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.53
  momentum:             2.90054782975137
  historical:           23.63540133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140860/"
    handle:    "nm0140860"
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    title: "Jim Carroll"
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    title: "Ջեյմս Քերոլ"
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    title: "Jim Carroll"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Carroll"
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    title: "Jim Carroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Carroll"
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    title: "Кэрролл, Джим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump