# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-playford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:21:26.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-playford"
name: "John Playford"
slug: "john-playford"
description: "John Playford (1623–1686) was a London bookseller, publisher, minor composer and member of the Stationers' Company. He published books on music theory, instruction books for several instruments and psalters with tunes for singing in churches. He is perhaps best known today for his publication of The English Dancing Master in 1651."
tagline: "London bookseller and publisher (1623-1686)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Playford_by_David_Loggan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1623"
deathDate: "1686"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.623616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جون پلايفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "ジョン・プレイフォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Playford"
    title: "John Playford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Плейфорд, Джон"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c299e778-611b-4702-9602-00474220ceac"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282455"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump