# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-mccarty
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:25.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-mccarty"
name: "Jim McCarty"
slug: "jim-mccarty"
description: "James Stanley McCarty is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and Renaissance. McCarty has performed and recorded as a drummer and occasional singer with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot, Illusion, Box of Frogs, the British Invasion All-Stars, and Pilgrim. He was also a keyboardist for Stairway and, under his own name, a guitarist in the Jim McCarty Band."
tagline: "English drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yardbirds-1854.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1943-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.32586133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565407/"
    handle:    "nm0565407"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jimmccarty.co.uk/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim McCarty"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McCarty"
    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McCarty"
    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McCarty_(batteur)"
    title: "Jim McCarty (batteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McCarty"
    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジム・マッカーティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McCarty"
    title: "Jim McCarty"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Маккарти, Джим"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump