# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-fisher-q1350421
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:40:22.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-fisher-q1350421"
name: "Matthew Fisher"
slug: "matthew-fisher-q1350421"
description: "Matthew Charles Fisher is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single \"A Whiter Shade of Pale\", for which he subsequently won a songwriting credit. In his later life, he became a computer programmer, having qualified from Cambridge University."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matthew_Fisher%2C_Procol_Harum_1967.png?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: "1946-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.41
  momentum:             2.203791469194313
  historical:           14.68295466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279680/"
    handle:    "nm0279680"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://matthewfisher.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ماثيو فيشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%81_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_(%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%99%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%80)"
    title: "ম্যাথু ফিশার (সঙ্গীতশিল্পী)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CE%B8%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A6%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Μάθιου Φίσερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher_(musician)"
    title: "Matthew Fisher (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "マシュー・フィッシャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fisher"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8E_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82)"
    title: "Меттью Фішер (музикант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a1b23e2e-9f94-405d-a2d2-32be49580eb2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350421"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2642204"
    title: "Matthew Fisher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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