# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-carpenter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:16.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-carpenter"
name: "Richard Carpenter"
slug: "richard-carpenter"
description: "Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who formed half of the sibling duo the Carpenters alongside his younger sister Karen. He had numerous roles in the Carpenters, including record producer, arranger, pianist, keyboardist, and songwriter, and he also sang harmony vocals with Karen."
tagline: "American pop musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Carpenter_-_NARA_-_194770.tif?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: "1946-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.49
  momentum:             8.54844751507871
  historical:           23.10036533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139443/"
    handle:    "nm0139443"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد كارپينتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریچارد کارپنتر (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(Musiker)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(musicien)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(zen%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (zenész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ռիչարդ Կարպենտեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "リチャード・カーペンター"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "리처드 카펜터 (음악가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(muzyk)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (muzyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Карпентер, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(muzi%C4%8Dar)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (muzičar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(nh%E1%BA%A1c_s%C4%A9)"
    title: "Richard Carpenter (nhạc sĩ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "理查·卡本特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q577671"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/152397"
    title: "Richard Carpenter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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