# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-mustaine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:32:24.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-mustaine"
name: "Dave Mustaine"
slug: "dave-mustaine"
description: "David Scott Mustaine is an American musician. He is the co-founder, frontman, primary songwriter and sole consistent member of the thrash metal band Megadeth and was the lead guitarist of Metallica from 1981 to 1983. Megadeth has released seventeen studio albums, sold over 50 million records worldwide, with five albums platinum-certified, and won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2017 at the 59th Grammy Awards, for the title track of their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HF2022Megadeth_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1961-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump