# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:10.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-banks"
name: "Paul Banks"
slug: "paul-banks"
description: "Paul Julian Banks is a British-American musician, singer, songwriter, and DJ. Noted for his baritone singing voice, he is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and studio bassist of the American rock band Interpol. He released a solo album called Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper in 2009 under the name Julian Plenti, though his solo material is now recorded under his real name."
tagline: "Interpol Band"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roskilde_Festival_Interpol_Paul_Banks_2.jpg?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: "1978-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.37
  momentum:             2.563062877043389
  historical:           19.728064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1923497/"
    handle:    "nm1923497"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "باول بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باول بانكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال بنکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Plenti"
    title: "Julian Plenti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks_(American_singer)"
    title: "Paul Banks (American singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "پال بنکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1"
    title: "פול בנקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ポール・バンクス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_(Interpol)"
    title: "Бэнкс, Пол (Interpol)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks"
    title: "Paul Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks_(1978_do%C4%9Fumlu_m%C3%BCzisyen)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Пол Бенкс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/71db5060-324e-4cc5-8ca6-0070220ae000"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1986211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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