# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/judge-dread
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:41.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/judge-dread"
name: "Judge Dread"
slug: "judge-dread"
description: "Alexander Minto Hughes, better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and the BBC has banned more of his songs from radio and television than those of any other recording artist, because of his frequent use of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Following his death, Rolling Stone reported, \"He sold several million albums throughout his 25-plus year career and was second only to Bob Marley in U.K. reggae sales during the 1970s\"."
tagline: "English musician (1945–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Judge-Dread.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-05-02"
deathDate: "1998-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.68
  momentum:             3.089005235602095
  historical:           12.82668133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3487043/"
    handle:    "nm3487043"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "چودج درياد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "جاج درید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hughes"
    title: "Alex Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8cac2cfe-16e7-4835-b13e-7b3ae3aa4bc2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1028859"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1490857"
    title: "Judge Dread"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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