# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/destin-sandlin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:25:26.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/destin-sandlin"
name: "Destin Sandlin"
slug: "destin-sandlin"
description: "Destin Wilson Sandlin is an American engineer and science communicator who produces the video series Smarter Every Day on his YouTube channel of the same name, which was launched in 2007. Sandlin also runs the YouTube channels The Sound Traveler, Smarter Every Day 2, and a podcast called No Dumb Questions with his friend Matt Whitman."
tagline: "American engineer, science communicator, and YouTuber"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Destin_sandlin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1981"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           69.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.532042666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 84
totalFollowers: 11900000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/smartereveryday"
    handle:    "smartereveryday"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday/"
    handle:    "smartereveryday"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay"
    handle:    "SmarterEveryDay"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6999224/"
    handle:    "nm6999224"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA"
    handle:    "@smartereveryday"
    followers: 11900000
sources:
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    title: "Destin Sandlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destin_Sandlin"
    title: "Destin Sandlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destin_Sandlin"
    title: "Destin Sandlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fc10d5c8-171c-40eb-be44-75b7ce8623bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destin_Sandlin"
    title: "Destin Sandlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destin_Sandlin"
    title: "Destin Sandlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149199"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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