# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/byron-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:18.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/byron-allen"
name: "Byron Allen"
slug: "byron-allen"
description: "Byron Allen Folks, professionally known as Byron Allen, is an American businessman, film and television producer, television host and comedian. He is the founder of the American media company Allen Media Group, which has interests in television production, broadcasting, film production, and digital media and is the chairman, CEO and partial owner of American internet media and news company BuzzFeed."
tagline: "American businessman and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Byron_Allen_%22Real_People%22_(1982_NBC_press_photo).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: "1961-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.440436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RealByronAllen"
    handle:    "RealByronAllen"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/byron-allen-046179a3/"
    handle:    "byron-allen-046179a3"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020334/"
    handle:    "nm0020334"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Allen"
    title: "Byron Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بايرون ألين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بايرون الين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%86%D9%86_%D8%A6%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "بایرۆن ئالن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Allen"
    title: "Byron Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "بایرون آلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Allen"
    title: "Byron Allen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3647873"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1238982"
    title: "Byron Allen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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