# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-shakespeare-hays
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:31:18.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-shakespeare-hays"
name: "William Shakespeare Hays"
slug: "william-shakespeare-hays"
description: "William Shakespeare Hays was an American poet and lyricist. He wrote some 350 songs over his career and sold as many as 20 million copies of his works. These pieces varied in tone from low comedy to sentimental and pious; his material was sometimes confused with that of Stephen Foster as a result. In his later years, Hays put forth one of the more plausible claims to authorship of the song \"Dixie\". In the end, however, no evidence could be produced to back up his pretensions."
tagline: "American writer (1837-1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Will_S_Hays%2C_1895.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-07-19"
deathDate: "1907-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ウィリアム・ヘイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ويليام شكسبير هايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare_Hays"
    title: "William Shakespeare Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1555399"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare_Hays"
    title: "William Shakespeare Hays"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a048142e-b1aa-42fb-8e0a-64a892a9556f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15497470"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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