# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-mckean
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:18:51.826Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-mckean"
name: "Dave McKean"
slug: "dave-mckean"
description: "David McKean is an English artist. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpture. McKean has illustrated works by authors such as S.F. Said, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Heston Blumenthal, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. He has also directed three feature films."
tagline: "English artist, photographer, filmmaker and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_McKean_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2018_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1963-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.74
  momentum:             15.04199328107503
  historical:           16.129132
  currentAttention:     6.416666666666668
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DaveMcKean"
    handle:    "DaveMcKean"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0571098/"
    handle:    "nm0571098"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davemckean.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "داڤ مكيان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیو مک‌کین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McKean"
    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave McKean"
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    title: "Дейв Маккін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump