# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-hearn
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:04.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-hearn"
name: "Barry Hearn"
slug: "barry-hearn"
description: "Barry Maurice William Hearn is an English sports promoter who is founder and president of Matchroom Sport. Through Matchroom, Hearn is also involved in many sports including boxing, snooker, darts, pool, tenpin bowling, golf, table tennis and fishing. Until April 2021 Hearn was the chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation and until July 2010, chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Until July 2014, he was the chairman of Leyton Orient F.C."
tagline: "British sports promoter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barry_Hearn_2012.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-06-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.855204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BarryHearn"
    handle:    "BarryHearn"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1186866/"
    handle:    "nm1186866"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.matchroomsport.com/matchroomStars.asp"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%B4%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E8%B5%AB%E6%81%A9"
    title: "巴里·赫恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "باري هيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%A5%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BD"
    title: "Бары Хірн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hearn"
    title: "Barry Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hearn"
    title: "Barry Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B6"
    title: "Բարրի Հերն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バリー・ハーン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hearn"
    title: "Barry Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Hearn"
    title: "Barry Hearn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Херн, Барри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4906826"
    title: "Barry Hearn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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