# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poly-styrene
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:31:59.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poly-styrene"
name: "Poly Styrene"
slug: "poly-styrene"
description: "Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She is considered a pioneer for the feminist punk movement."
tagline: "British punk musician (1957–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Poly_Styrene_cropped_nochmal.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1957-07-03"
deathDate: "2011-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.67
  momentum:             2.982986767485822
  historical:           19.52491066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/poly_styrene"
    handle:    "poly_styrene"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/polystyrenemusic"
    handle:    "polystyrenemusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1387549/"
    handle:    "nm1387549"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.poly-styrene.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "পলি স্টাইরিন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Поли Стайрин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Полі Стайрин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "پولی سٹائرین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2273733"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1732833"
    title: "Poly Styrene"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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