# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dav-pilkey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:12.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dav-pilkey"
name: "Dav Pilkey"
slug: "dav-pilkey"
description: "David Murray \"Dav\" Pilkey Jr. is an American comic book writer, author, and illustrator of children's fiction. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series Captain Underpants and its spin-off children's graphic novel series Dog Man, the latter published under the respective writer and illustrator pen names of George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two protagonists of the Captain Underpants franchise."
tagline: "American cartonist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dav_Pilkey_at_a_book_event_in_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.42028533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2438127/"
    handle:    "nm2438127"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://pilkey.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Дейв Пілкі"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav_Pilkey"
    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav_Pilkey"
    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pilkey"
    title: "David Pilkey"
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    title: "דאב פילקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "デイブ・ピルキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2"
    title: "Пилки, Дейв"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav_Pilkey"
    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2550486"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1644381"
    title: "Dav Pilkey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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