# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-ryder
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:42:53.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-ryder"
name: "Paul Ryder"
slug: "paul-ryder"
description: "Paul Anthony Ryder was an English musician. He was a bass player and a founding member of the Manchester band Happy Mondays with his brother Shaun Ryder. His bass playing was credited with bringing funk to the band's mixture of indie rock, Northern soul and house music, and with underpinning the Madchester sound of the late 1980s."
tagline: "English bass guitarist (1964–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-11-24"
deathDate: "2022-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             2.594921402660217
  historical:           5.720821333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1174667/"
    handle:    "nm1174667"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/342579"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "پول ريدير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryder"
    title: "Paul Ryder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryder"
    title: "Paul Ryder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryder"
    title: "Paul Ryder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8bead127-8711-4baf-a8e6-790885f58bdc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/749886"
    title: "Paul Ryder"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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