# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-turpin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:37.636Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-turpin"
name: "Tom Turpin"
slug: "tom-turpin"
description: "Thomas Million John Turpin was an American composer of ragtime music. Turpin is credited with the first published rag by an African American, his \"Harlem Rag\" of 1897."
tagline: "American ragtime composer and saloon-keeper (1871-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TomTurpin.png?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: "1871-11-18"
deathDate: "1922-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.72
  momentum:             0.5607476635514019
  historical:           9.218288000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "توم تورپين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Turpin"
    title: "Tom Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b35fb3cc-baca-4241-bd05-6b54ac730657"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1345690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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