# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-jacob-niles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:52.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-jacob-niles"
name: "John Jacob Niles"
slug: "john-jacob-niles"
description: "John Jacob Niles was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the \"Dean of American Balladeers,\" Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others, recording his songs."
tagline: "American musician (1892–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Jacob_Niles-_portrait_-_DPLA_-_46e47bc9bd42a8dd794bb4d5a66890b3.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: "1892-04-28"
deathDate: "1980-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             2.478260869565217
  historical:           9.901910666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5260043/"
    handle:    "nm5260043"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون جاكوب نايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "جون جاكوب نايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B7%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Найлз, Джон Джейкоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4312433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3772592"
    title: "John Jacob Niles"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump