# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-gallagher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:44:13.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-gallagher"
name: "Fred Gallagher"
slug: "fred-gallagher"
description: "Frederick M. Gallagher III is an American illustrator and web cartoonist. He is best known as the artist, co-creator, and now full owner of Megatokyo. He also goes by the name of Piro, the main character of Megatokyo, who he has stated is an idealized version of himself when he was in college. He took this name from that of the cat in the visual novel Kanon."
tagline: "American illustrator and web cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_gallagher_2004_MIT.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1968-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             7.117821782178217
  historical:           7.618576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.fredart.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher"
    title: "Fred Gallagher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "فرد غالاغير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher"
    title: "Fred Gallagher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher_(cartoonist)"
    title: "Fred Gallagher (cartoonist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher"
    title: "Fred Gallagher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher"
    title: "Fred Gallagher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "フレッド・ギャラガー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gallagher"
    title: "Fred Gallagher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452319"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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