# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:07:51.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lam"
name: "Richard Lam"
slug: "richard-lam"
description: "Richard Lam Chun-keung was a Cantopop lyricist with several hundred Cantopop songs to his name, and a columnist for Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Hong Kong."
tagline: "Hong Kong writer (1947–2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947"
deathDate: "2003-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.62
  momentum:             12.23728813559322
  historical:           6.7503
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4793751/"
    handle:    "nm4793751"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4935694"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "ريتشارد لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lam"
    title: "Richard Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%8C%AF%E5%BC%B7"
    title: "林振強"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%8C%AF%E5%BC%B7"
    title: "林振強"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%8C%AF%E5%BC%B7"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eff41f4e-5ffc-4fd0-9b56-7830d3122fbb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7327225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3531877"
    title: "Richard Lam"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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