# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-lou-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:35:15.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-lou-williams"
name: "Mary Lou Williams"
slug: "mary-lou-williams"
description: "Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1910–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Lou_Williams_(Gottlieb_09231).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1910-05-08"
deathDate: "1981-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.99825812845204
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0931278"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump