# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-zimmern
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:06:24.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-zimmern"
name: "Andrew Zimmern"
slug: "andrew-zimmern"
description: "Andrew Scott Zimmern is an American chef, restaurateur, television and radio personality, director, producer, businessman, food critic, and author. Zimmern is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods America, Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations, Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World, Dining with Death, The Zimmern List, and Andrew Zimmern's Driven by Food, as well as the Food Network series The Big Food Truck Tip. For his work on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, he was presented the James Beard Foundation Award four times: in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017. Zimmern hosts a cooking webseries on YouTube, Andrew Zimmern Cooks. Another show, What's Eating America, premiered on MSNBC in 2020."
tagline: "American chef"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AndrewZimmern_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.49
  momentum:             0.563305433771755
  historical:           10.83913866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 146
totalFollowers: 218000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/andrewzimmern"
    handle:    "andrewzimmern"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chefaz/"
    handle:    "chefaz"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AndrewZimmern"
    handle:    "AndrewZimmern"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2612271/"
    handle:    "nm2612271"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://andrewzimmern.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVH5ptWb6zcPT3zxeupWxA"
    handle:    "@andrewzimmern"
    followers: 218000
sources:
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    title: "安德魯·席莫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "اندرو زيمرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimmern"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2405404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1228050"
    title: "Andrew Zimmern"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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