# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/les-paul
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:20:20.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/les-paul"
name: "Les Paul"
slug: "les-paul"
description: "Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, made numerous recordings, selling millions of copies."
tagline: "American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Les_Paul%2C_ca._Jan._1947_(William_P._Gottlieb_07001).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1915-06-09"
deathDate: "2009-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.7
  momentum:             16.17720409813966
  historical:           25.19394
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666904/"
    handle:    "nm0666904"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.les-paul.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Paul"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Les Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul"
    title: "Les Paul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Լես Պոլ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump