# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dik-evans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:44:56.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dik-evans"
name: "Dik Evans"
slug: "dik-evans"
description: "Richard G. \"Dik\" Evans is a British-Irish musician. He is a co-founder and guitarist of the band Virgin Prunes, and a co-founder and early guitarist of the band that later became U2. He is the older brother of U2 guitarist The Edge."
tagline: "Irish alternative rock guitarist, early U2 member"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dik_Evans_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.14
  momentum:             14.182232781313
  historical:           7.635722666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1174553"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9)"
    title: "ديك إيفانز (عازف قيثارة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "ديك ايفانز (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%8A%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Дик Евънс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik_Evans"
    title: "Dik Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik_Evans"
    title: "Dik Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%99_%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%96%E1%83%98"
    title: "დიკ ევანზი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik_Evans"
    title: "Dik Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik_Evans"
    title: "Dik Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2136220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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