# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mac-wiseman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:49.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mac-wiseman"
name: "Mac Wiseman"
slug: "mac-wiseman"
description: "Malcolm Bell \"Mac\" Wiseman was an American bluegrass and country singer active for seven decades in the twentieth century. He was part of Bluegrass music's earliest generation, though bluegrass never defined him. He helped found the CMA, headed Dot Records' country division, and, in 1993, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. In his early career he was the guitarist for Flatt and Scruggs' band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. His biggest hits included \"The Ballad of Davy Crockett\" (1955) and \"Jimmy Brown the Newsboy\" (1959). Wiseman was a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. In 2014 he became part of the Veteran Era category of the Country Music Hall of Fame, as \"an artist who achieved national prominence more than 45 years ago\"."
tagline: "American musician (1925–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mac_Wiseman_2008.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: "1925-05-23"
deathDate: "2019-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.914690666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936485/"
    handle:    "nm0936485"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ماك وايزمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماك وايزمان"
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    title: "ماک وایزمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Wiseman"
    title: "Mac Wiseman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Wiseman"
    title: "Mac Wiseman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Wiseman"
    title: "Mac Wiseman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Wiseman"
    title: "Mac Wiseman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Уайзман, Мак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Wiseman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f6cde1f4-220a-48cb-a398-30be58c69456"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1882498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1288025"
    title: "Mac Wiseman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump