# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-terry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:51:04.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-terry"
name: "Ruth Terry"
slug: "ruth-terry"
description: "Ruth Mae Terry was an American singer and actress in film and television from the 1930s to the 1960s. She claimed her stage name came from Walter Winchell, who combined the names of two then-famous baseball players, Babe Ruth and Bill Terry."
tagline: "American actress and singer (1920-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Terry.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1920-10-21"
deathDate: "2016-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.82
  momentum:             6.13919413919414
  historical:           8.546401333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856074/"
    handle:    "nm0856074"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DA%BE_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "روتھ ٹیری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "روث تيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "روث تيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Terry"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7383237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34449"
    title: "Ruth Terry"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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