# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-tennant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:57:12.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-tennant"
name: "Neil Tennant"
slug: "neil-tennant"
description: "Neil Francis Tennant is an English singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. Before becoming a professional musician, Tennant had a career in publishing, including a stint as an editor at Marvel UK in the mid-1970s. He was a music journalist for Smash Hits and became assistant editor in the early 1980s."
tagline: "English musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pet_Shop_Boys_(6607480289).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: "1954-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.18
  momentum:             0.4525932650236565
  historical:           24.53562
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/petshopboys"
    handle:    "petshopboys"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855057/"
    handle:    "nm0855057"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ניל טננט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Tennant"
    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Tennant_(zanger)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Tennant"
    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336278"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106560"
    title: "Neil Tennant"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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