# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/top-topham
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:31.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/top-topham"
name: "Top Topham"
slug: "top-topham"
description: "Anthony \"Top\" Topham was an English musician and visual artist who was best known as a blues guitarist and also for being the first lead guitarist of The Yardbirds. Topham left the band before they achieved mainstream popularity and was replaced by Eric Clapton, the first of three lead guitarists from the Yardbirds to gain an international reputation."
tagline: "British musician (1947–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-07-03"
deathDate: "2023-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.047952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8561603/"
    handle:    "nm8561603"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.toptopham.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1459091"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%BE_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "توپ توفام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%85%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Энтані Топхэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_%C2%AB_Top_%C2%BB_Topham"
    title: "Anthony « Top » Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Topham"
    title: "Top Topham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eb50ad40-3f3e-4a8a-8c59-924079a98d28"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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