# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diego-galan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:51.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diego-galan"
name: "Diego Galán"
slug: "diego-galan"
description: "Diego Galán Fernández was a Spanish film critic, journalist, film historian, and filmmaker. He served as director of the San Sebastián International Film Festival from 1986 to 1989 and from 1995 to 2000."
tagline: "Spanish film director (1946-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diego_Galan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1946-10-13"
deathDate: "2019-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.08
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           5.070914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0303561/"
    handle:    "nm0303561"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Gal%C3%A1n"
    title: "Diego Galán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Gal%C3%A1n_Fern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Diego Galán Fernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Gal%C3%A1n"
    title: "Diego Galán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Gal%C3%A1n"
    title: "Diego Galán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Gal%C3%A1n"
    title: "Diego Galán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5806151"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1030542"
    title: "Diego Galán"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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