# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-coogan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:25:19.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-coogan"
name: "Brendan Coogan"
slug: "brendan-coogan"
description: "Brendan Coogan is a British television and radio presenter, from Middleton, Greater Manchester. In January 1999, Coogan briefly presented the BBC TV motoring programme Top Gear, following the departure of former host Jeremy Clarkson, but left after a few months, following a drink-driving conviction. Between 1999 and 2001, he was a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live."
tagline: "British television presenter/personality"
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: "1970-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             0.382144064930673
  historical:           3.287706666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "براندان كووغان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Coogan"
    title: "Brendan Coogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960846"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3650800"
    title: "Brendan Coogan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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