# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-petersson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:12.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-petersson"
name: "Tom Petersson"
slug: "tom-petersson"
description: "Thomas John Peterson, better known as Tom Petersson, is an American musician who is best known as the bass guitar player for the rock band Cheap Trick."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Petersson.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: "1950-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.536625333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/536302"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petersson"
    title: "Tom Petersson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petersson"
    title: "Tom Petersson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petersson"
    title: "Tom Petersson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petersson"
    title: "Tom Petersson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Petersson"
    title: "Tom Petersson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/08e293da-e14f-4507-8a48-40fd7b33e82b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3992519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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