# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seymour-stein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:29.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seymour-stein"
name: "Seymour Stein"
slug: "seymour-stein"
description: "Seymour Steinbigle, known professionally as Seymour Stein, was an American entrepreneur and music executive. He co-founded Sire Records and was vice president of Warner Bros. Records. With Sire, Stein signed bands that became central to the new wave era of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Ramones, Talking Heads, and The Pretenders; he signed Madonna as well. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005."
tagline: "American music executive (1942–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seymour_Stein_(2013).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1942-04-18"
deathDate: "2023-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.465924895688455
  historical:           13.44921733333333
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/seymourstein"
    handle:    "seymourstein"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825629/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Seymour Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Seymour Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Seymour Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Seymour Stein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Stein"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump