# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tammy-faye-messner
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:37:46.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tammy-faye-messner"
name: "Tammy Faye Messner"
slug: "tammy-faye-messner"
description: "Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park."
tagline: "American evangelist (1942-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tammy_Faye_Messner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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: "1942-03-07"
deathDate: "2007-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.408972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049176/"
    handle:    "nm0049176"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://tammyfaye.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tammy Faye Messner"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tammy Faye Messner"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Tammy Faye Bakker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump