# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thelonious-monk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:56:46.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thelonious-monk"
name: "Thelonious Monk"
slug: "thelonious-monk"
description: "Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including \"'Round Midnight\", \"Blue Monk\", \"Straight, No Chaser\", \"Ruby, My Dear\", \"In Walked Bud\", and \"Well, You Needn't\". As of 2009, Monk was the second-most-recorded jazz composer in history, after Duke Ellington."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and composer (1917–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thelonious_Monk%2C_Minton's_Playhouse%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y.%2C_ca._Sept._1947_(William_P._Gottlieb_06191).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: "1917-10-10"
deathDate: "1982-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.900900426517824
  historical:           25.627272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 246
totalFollowers: 62400
platforms:
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    handle:    "theloniousmonk"
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    handle:    "theloniousmonk"
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    handle:    "@officialtheloniousmonk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump