# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-samwell-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:32.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-samwell-smith"
name: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
slug: "paul-samwell-smith"
description: "Paul Granville Samwell-Smith is an English musician and record producer. He was a founding member and the bassist of the 1960s English rock band the Yardbirds, which launched leading guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page to fame."
tagline: "English musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Yardbirds_on_ad_1965_(cropped).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: "1943-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.26037733333333
  currentAttention:     1.16
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0760612/"
    handle:    "nm0760612"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "بول سميث (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол Самюъл-Смит"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ポール・サミュエル＝スミス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB-%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Сэмвелл-Смит, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a0114721-2910-4fc0-80c4-68b5969ae0a3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2466911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1138704"
    title: "Paul Samwell-Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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