# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-carthy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:20:17.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-carthy"
name: "Martin Carthy"
slug: "martin-carthy"
description: "Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, as well as later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Carthy.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: "1941-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.968768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4533428/"
    handle:    "nm4533428"
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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    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارتین کارتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マーティン・カーシー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "മാർട്ടിൻ കാർത്തി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Martin Carthy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump