# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:54:28.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-foster"
name: "Stephen Foster"
slug: "stephen-foster"
description: "Stephen Collins Foster, known as \"the father of American music\", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote more than 200 songs, including \"Oh! Susanna\", \"Hard Times Come Again No More\", \"Camptown Races\", \"Old Folks at Home\", \"My Old Kentucky Home\", \"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair\", \"Old Black Joe\", and \"Beautiful Dreamer\". Many of his compositions remain popular today."
tagline: "American songwriter (1826-1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Foster.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1826-07-04"
deathDate: "1864-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.75303733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288062/"
    handle:    "nm0288062"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Стивън Фостър"
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    title: "Stephen Foster"
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    title: "സ്റ്റീഫൻ ഫോസ്റ്റർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Foster (componist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stephen Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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