# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-holt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:30:45.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-holt"
name: "Gary Holt"
slug: "gary-holt"
description: "Gary Wayne Holt is an American musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the guitarist and main songwriter for thrash metal band Exodus, and has also been a member of Slayer since 2011, initially joining as a temporary guitarist in place of Jeff Hanneman, and as a permanent guitarist after his death in May 2013. Despite the fact that he did not join Exodus until 1981, Holt is the only member to appear on all of the band's albums."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2019_Gary_Holt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.84
  momentum:             0.7076167076167077
  historical:           20.500168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2209798/"
    handle:    "nm2209798"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.exodusattack.com/biography.php"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "غاري هولت (موسيقي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جارى هولت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "قاری هولت (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt_(Musiker)"
    title: "Gary Holt (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Γκάρι Χολτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Holt (guitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt_(musicien)"
    title: "Gary Holt (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt_(pemuzik)"
    title: "Gary Holt (pemuzik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt"
    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Холт, Гэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Holt_(hudobn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Gary Holt (hudobník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gary Holt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%90%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82"
    title: "Ґері Голт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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