# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wendy-o-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:04:00.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wendy-o-williams"
name: "Wendy O. Williams"
slug: "wendy-o-williams"
description: "Wendy Orlean Williams was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun, and chainsawing guitars. Performing her own stunts in videos, she often sported a mohawk hairstyle. In 1985, during the height of her popularity as a solo artist, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance."
tagline: "American singer (1949–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plasmatics_1979%2C_promo_shot.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: "1949-05-28"
deathDate: "1998-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           69.6
  momentum:             0.8651026392961875
  historical:           19.448916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 23700
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931926/"
    handle:    "nm0931926"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wendyowilliams.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRWKmwA2Nn5jXJmJoF-jmw"
    handle:    "@wendyo.williams"
    followers: 23700
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_O._Williams"
    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уильямс, Уэнди О."
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Венді О. Вільямс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Wendy O. Williams"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump