# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathy-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:54:35.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathy-kirby"
name: "Kathy Kirby"
slug: "kathy-kirby"
description: "Kathy Kirby was an English singer, best known for her cover version of Doris Day's \"Secret Love\" and for representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, where she finished in second place. Her popularity peaked in the 1960s, when she was one of the best-known and most-recognised personalities in British show business."
tagline: "British singer (1938–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1965_-_Kathy_Kirby_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1938-10-20"
deathDate: "2011-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             2.888277561446916
  historical:           22.10793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456176/"
    handle:    "nm0456176"
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    handle:    "1kVx0f62SrfKxKIzXJtTUf"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kathykirby.co.uk/"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاثى كيربى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kathy Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kathy Kirby"
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    title: "Kathy Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kathy Kirby"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump