# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-muller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:54:28.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-muller"
name: "Derek Muller"
slug: "derek-muller"
description: "Derek Alexander Muller is a Canadian-Australian science communicator and media personality best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium, which has over 20 million subscribers and 4 billion views as of April 2026."
tagline: "Australian-born Canadian science communicator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Muller_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-11-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.76328666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  147
  category: 241
totalFollowers: 2050
platforms:
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    handle:    "derekamuller"
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    handle:    "nm6162264"
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    url:       "https://www.veritasium.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@derekmuller"
    followers: 2050
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump