# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-tammet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:53.497Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-tammet"
name: "Daniel Tammet"
slug: "daniel-tammet"
description: "Daniel Paul Tammet is an English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a \"Best Book for Young Adults\" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada. Tammet's books have been published in over 20 languages."
tagline: "British writer, mathematician, essayist and autistic savant"
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birthDate: "1979-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump