# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lyell-cresswell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:57:31.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lyell-cresswell"
name: "Lyell Cresswell"
slug: "lyell-cresswell"
description: "Lyell Richard Cresswell was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and lived and worked in Edinburgh from 1985 on. Although he lived more than half his life away from New Zealand, he regarded himself as a New Zealander."
tagline: "New Zealand-British composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lyell_Cresswell_(4416).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: "1944"
deathDate: "2022-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.78
  momentum:             0.4054054054054055
  historical:           7.269438666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187595/"
    handle:    "nm0187595"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ليل كريسويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyell_Cresswell"
    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyell_Cresswell"
    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyell_Cresswell"
    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyell_Cresswell"
    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6707756"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3260987"
    title: "Lyell Cresswell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump