# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-levitin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:32:11.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-levitin"
name: "Daniel Levitin"
slug: "daniel-levitin"
description: "Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Levitin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.68892
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  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 163
platforms:
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    handle:    "drlevitin"
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    handle:    "daniellevitinofficial"
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    handle:    "danlevitin"
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    handle:    "@daniel.levitin"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump