# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-spitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:55.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-spitz"
name: "Dan Spitz"
slug: "dan-spitz"
description: "Daniel Alan Spitz is an American musician and watchmaker best known for his work as the lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Anthrax from 1983 to 1995 and from 2005 to 2007. Spitz also founded the Christian music group Red Lamb, which was known for lyrics on autism awareness. Spitz has earned Swiss and American degrees in luxury mechanical watchmaking and micro-mechanical engineering, certified as watchmaker instructor for the North American operations of Swiss watch company Chopard."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Spitz.jpg?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: "1963-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.21
  momentum:             3.204289824744965
  historical:           12.63012266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1036071/"
    handle:    "nm1036071"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://danspitz.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/402560"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "دان سپيتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B6"
    title: "Νταν Σπιτζ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%83%E3%83%84"
    title: "ダン・スピッツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ebc2c7a9-c77c-45ad-9d1a-d9f49d83c207"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159171"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1617812"
    title: "Dan Spitz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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