# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolph-dunbar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:19:52.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolph-dunbar"
name: "Rudolph Dunbar"
slug: "rudolph-dunbar"
description: "Rudolph Dunbar was a Guyanese conductor, clarinetist, and composer, as well as being a jazz musician of note in the 1920s. Leaving British Guiana at the age of 20, he had settled in England by 1931, and subsequently worked in other parts of Europe but lived most of his later years in London. Among numerous \"firsts\", he was the first black man to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1942), the first black man to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic (1945) and the first black man to conduct orchestras in Poland (1959) and Russia (1964). Dunbar also worked as a journalist and a war correspondent."
tagline: "American conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rudolph_Dunbar%2C_ca._1920.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: "1907-11-26"
deathDate: "1988-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Dunbar"
    title: "Rudolph Dunbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "رودولف دونبار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Dunbar"
    title: "Rudolph Dunbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5665788"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Dunbar"
    title: "Rudolph Dunbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Dunbar"
    title: "Rudolph Dunbar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7377409"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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