# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ardoin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:50:05.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ardoin"
name: "John Ardoin"
slug: "john-ardoin"
description: "John Ardoin was an American music critic. The music critic of The Dallas Morning News for thirty-two years, he was particularly known for his friendship with the opera soprano Maria Callas, about whom Ardoin wrote four books. His influence stretched much further than Dallas, and he was well acquainted with many classical musicians of the postwar era."
tagline: "Music critic of The Dallas Morning News for thirty-two years"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1935-01-08"
deathDate: "2001-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.803276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2034257"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون أردوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون اردوين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%91%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%B9%CE%BD"
    title: "Τζον Αρντόιν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ardoin"
    title: "John Ardoin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ardoin"
    title: "John Ardoin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ardoin"
    title: "John Ardoin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/781ec90d-65d8-429f-b1cf-55c73d05a88d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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