# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-ranaldo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:54:42.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-ranaldo"
name: "Lee Ranaldo"
slug: "lee-ranaldo"
description: "Lee Mark Ranaldo is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as guitarist and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its \"Greatest Guitarists of All Time\" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1."
tagline: "American rock musician (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Concierto_de_Lee_Ranaldo_en_La_2_de_Barcelona_(8683785451).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.215604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "leeranaldo"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007145/"
    handle:    "nm0007145"
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    handle:    "4tXPSo0qk91VMP3wFxL0Fo"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sonicyouth.com/symu/lee/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Lee Ranaldo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Ranaldo"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lee Ranaldo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ranaldo"
    title: "Lee Ranaldo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ranaldo"
    title: "Lee Ranaldo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Ranaldo"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump