# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruby-murray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:13:36.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruby-murray"
name: "Ruby Murray"
slug: "ruby-murray"
description: "Ruby Florence Murray was a Northern Irish singer from Belfast. One of the most popular performers in Britain and Ireland in the 1950s, she scored ten hits in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1959, including a no. 1 with Softly, Softly. She also made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five hits in the Top Twenty in a single week. New Musical Express named her Britain's favourite female singer of 1955. Frank Sinatra told her that he was her \"greatest fan\"."
tagline: "Northern Irish pop singer (1935–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/RubyMurray.png"
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: "1935-03-29"
deathDate: "1996-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             2.481081081081081
  historical:           10.61645733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615258/"
    handle:    "nm0615258"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rubymurray.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9)"
    title: "روبي موراي (مغنية)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "روبى موراى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "روبی مورای (شارکیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Murray"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8E%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Мюррей, Руби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eedc39bd-6906-42b3-8668-0b4154b54b61"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2656224"
    title: "Ruby Murray"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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