# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-oldfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:04.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-oldfield"
name: "Mike Oldfield"
slug: "mike-oldfield"
description: "Michael Gordon Oldfield is a retired English musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield played a range of instruments, which included keyboards and percussion, as well as vocals. He had adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient and new age music. His discography includes 25 studio albums, nine of which have reached the UK top ten."
tagline: "English musician (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Oldfield_NOTP_2006.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: "1953-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           73.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.759732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  239
  category: null
totalFollowers: 107000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump