# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-townshend
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:46.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-townshend"
name: "Karen Townshend"
slug: "karen-townshend"
description: "Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, keyboardist, second lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. His aggressive playing style, poetic songwriting techniques and authorship of two rock operas with the Who, as well as other projects, have earned him critical acclaim."
tagline: "British fashion designer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Pete_Townshend_%282012%29.jpg/330px-Pete_Townshend_%282012%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1947-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           23.36
  momentum:             0.8333333333333333
  historical:           1.533801333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Townshend"
    title: "Karen Townshend"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23671264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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