# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-paul-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:59.335Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-paul-young"
name: "John Paul Young"
slug: "john-paul-young"
description: "John Inglis Young, OAM, known professionally as John Paul Young, is an Australian pop singer who is best known for having a worldwide hit with \"Love Is in the Air\" in 1978. His career was boosted by regular appearances as a performer and guest host on Countdown, a 1974–1987 TV series for Australia's national broadcaster ABC.\nBesides \"Love Is in the Air\", Young had top ten chart success in Germany and the Netherlands with \"Standing in the Rain\", released in 1977, and four other top ten hits in South Africa, including No. 1 hits \"Yesterday's Hero\" in 1975, and \"I Hate the Music\" in 1976."
tagline: "Australian singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Paul_Young_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1950-06-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.83
  momentum:             15.68545216251638
  historical:           15.62684133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2565885/"
    handle:    "nm2565885"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://johnpaulyoung.com.au/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون بول يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "جون بول يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D9%82"
    title: "جون بول یونق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young_(chanteur)"
    title: "John Paul Young (chanteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Young"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2af13455-6062-473c-af2a-804a0ac7f641"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1253604"
    title: "John Paul Young"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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