# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/napoleon-xiv
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:29:01.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/napoleon-xiv"
name: "Napoleon XIV"
slug: "napoleon-xiv"
description: "Jerrold \"Jerry\" Laurence Samuels was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and talent agent. Under the pseudonym Napoleon XIV, he achieved one-hit wonder status with the #3 hit novelty song \"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!\" in 1966. Samuels occasionally revisited the Napoleon XIV character to record other songs, usually comedy records with an insanity theme."
tagline: "American musician (1938–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Napoleon_XIV.png?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: "1938-05-03"
deathDate: "2023-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             1.115494440775971
  historical:           11.06271733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2397013/"
    handle:    "nm2397013"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jerysam.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/281889"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%DA%A4"
    title: "ناپوليون اكسيڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_XIV"
    title: "Napoléon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B314%E4%B8%96"
    title: "ナポレオン14世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV"
    title: "Napoleon XIV"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/21e08280-f2fe-4abf-93f9-a71a673ada9e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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