# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:11.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-kirby"
name: "Robert Kirby"
slug: "robert-kirby"
description: "Robert Bruce Kirby was an English arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He worked on the Nick Drake albums Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, and with Vashti Bunyan, Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello."
tagline: "British musician (1948-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Kirby%2C_music_arranger%2C_at_a_reunion_weekend_in_2007.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: "1948-04-16"
deathDate: "2009-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.486610666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456219/"
    handle:    "nm0456219"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "روبرت كيربي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "روبرت كيربى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت کیربی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/29fa5d64-05eb-424d-8807-7245895fa4ea"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1908163"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72519"
    title: "Robert Kirby"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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