# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-rowland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:54:29.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-rowland"
name: "Kevin Rowland"
slug: "kevin-rowland"
description: "Kevin Rowland is a British singer and musician best known as the frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners. The band had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being \"Geno\" and \"Come On Eileen\", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart."
tagline: "British singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rowland_crop.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1953-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.63
  momentum:             1.867227034908654
  historical:           14.298096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1377267/"
    handle:    "nm1377267"
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    title: "Kevin Rowland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kevin Rowland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rowland"
    title: "Kevin Rowland"
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    title: "کوین رولند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kevin Rowland"
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    title: "Kevin Rowland"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump