# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-lee-golden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:33:08.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-lee-golden"
name: "William Lee Golden"
slug: "william-lee-golden"
description: "William Lee Golden is an American country music singer. Between 1965 and 1987, and again since 1996, he has been the baritone singer in the country vocal group the Oak Ridge Boys. Golden was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015 as a member of the Oak Ridge Boys."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Lee_Golden_by_Gage_Skidmore.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: "1939-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.97
  momentum:             1.804788213627993
  historical:           5.743578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wlgolden"
    handle:    "wlgolden"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/william_lee_golden/"
    handle:    "william_lee_golden"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/WilliamLeeGoldenOfficial"
    handle:    "WilliamLeeGoldenOfficial"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4AG0Ti433JbP7iq7Ns7tPa"
    handle:    "4AG0Ti433JbP7iq7Ns7tPa"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williamleegolden.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_Golden"
    title: "William Lee Golden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام لي غولدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%82%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام لی قلدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1264044c-dee6-47e1-bc17-6d7ef40f44bf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lee_Golden"
    title: "William Lee Golden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%84%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "ویلیام لی گلدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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