# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-barnes-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:59:08.138Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-barnes-wells"
name: "John Barnes Wells"
slug: "john-barnes-wells"
description: "John Barnes \"Jack\" Wells, was an American composer and singer. He sang as a tenor. He was once described as \"one of the best known concert singers in New York.\" A popular singer, Wells was featured on many 78-rpm recordings released in the early 1900s. He starred in the 1903 musical theater production of The Wizard of Oz. One of his final performances was in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1933). He also used the pseudonym William Barnes and composed music under the name Jack Wells."
tagline: "American singer and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Barnes_Wells_in_1917_in_Manhattan.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: "1880-10-17"
deathDate: "1935-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.95
  momentum:             20.86206896551724
  historical:           5.068322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnes_Wells"
    title: "John Barnes Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "جون بارنز ولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "جون بارنز ولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b3a2ebb6-af9f-44cf-9bf2-f704d11b16c5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnes_Wells"
    title: "John Barnes Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnes_Wells"
    title: "John Barnes Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20003656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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