# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-hampton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:39:15.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-hampton"
name: "Lionel Hampton"
slug: "lionel-hampton"
description: "Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996."
tagline: "American jazz musician (1908–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lionelhampton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1908-04-20"
deathDate: "2002-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.679
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump