# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-bourgeois
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:59:06.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-bourgeois"
name: "Louis Bourgeois"
slug: "louis-bourgeois"
description: "Loys \"Louis\" Bourgeois was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the tune known as the Old 100th, to which the Protestant doxology is often sung, is commonly attributed to him."
tagline: "French composer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Bourgeois_1551.jpg/330px-Bourgeois_1551.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1510"
deathDate: "1560"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             3.46187469645459
  historical:           13.623256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Loys Bourgeois"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bourgeois_(composer)"
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    title: "Loys Bourgeois"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bourgeois_(compositore)"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bd386e77-a13b-4031-af06-9d1ba308132e"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump