# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-william-fenton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:25:24.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-william-fenton"
name: "John William Fenton"
slug: "john-william-fenton"
description: "John William Fenton was a British musician and the leader of a military band in Japan at the start of the Meiji period. He is considered \"the first bandmaster in Japan\" and \"the father of band music in Japan.\" Fenton is best known for having initiated the process through which Kimi ga yo came to be accepted as the national anthem of Japan."
tagline: "British composer (1828–1890)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1828-03-12"
deathDate: "1890-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             16.81061394380853
  historical:           6.374193333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a41a3340-308c-4c7d-b05c-be56190974fe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون ويليام فينتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Fenton"
    title: "John William Fenton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Fenton"
    title: "John William Fenton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Fenton"
    title: "John William Fenton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョン・ウィリアム・フェントン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Фентон, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182754"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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