# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-stafford-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:20:05.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-stafford-smith"
name: "John Stafford Smith"
slug: "john-stafford-smith"
description: "John Stafford Smith was an English composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and a friend of his son Johann Christian Bach."
tagline: "British composer, church organist, and early musicologist (1750–1836)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stafford_Smith.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1750-03-30"
deathDate: "1836-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             24.74161378059837
  historical:           14.82344666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump