# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-mcneely
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:36:56.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-mcneely"
name: "Joel McNeely"
slug: "joel-mcneely"
description: "Joel McNeely is an American composer, conductor, arranger, musician, lyricist, and record producer. A protégé of composer Jerry Goldsmith, he is best known for his film and television scores. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his work on George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He frequently collaborates with Seth MacFarlane and contributes to various projects by The Walt Disney Company."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Joel_McNeely.jpg"
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: "1959-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.49
  momentum:             4.087591240875912
  historical:           13.20018533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006193/"
    handle:    "nm0006193"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/59UCaDN9qLklKVTxSiEyMV"
    handle:    "59UCaDN9qLklKVTxSiEyMV"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joelmcneely.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چويل مكنيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوئل مک‌نیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جوئل مک‌نیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョエル・マクニーリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_McNeely"
    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Джоел МакНілі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جوئل میک نیلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cf0e04e5-5ec7-43b4-b015-613872afc8da"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1382830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Joel McNeely"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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