# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-poland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:28:49.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-poland"
name: "Chris Poland"
slug: "chris-poland"
description: "Chris Poland is an American guitarist, best known as the former guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth. Since 2002, Poland has been the guitarist of the instrumental rock/jazz rock bands OHM and OHMphrey, among others, and has appeared on several projects and albums from a variety of different genres."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Poland.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.62428533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chrispoland.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كريس پولاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "کریس پولند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "크리스 폴랜드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Крис Поланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Поланд, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Poland"
    title: "Chris Poland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кріс Поланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/de5d0b89-89e1-453f-9c75-b816f1a85f0e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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