# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-thurston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:45:39.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-thurston"
name: "Howard Thurston"
slug: "howard-thurston"
description: "Howard Thurston was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio, United States. As a child, he ran away to join the circus, where his future partner Harry Kellar also performed. Thurston was deeply impressed after he attended magician Alexander Herrmann's magic show and was determined to equal his work. Alexander Herrmann was a French magician and was known as \"Herrmann the Great\". Thurston eventually became the most famous magician of his time. Thurston's traveling magic show was the biggest one of all; it was so large that it needed eight train cars to transport his road show."
tagline: "American magician (1869–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thurston_magician_poster.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1869-07-20"
deathDate: "1936-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.48
  momentum:             1.346704871060172
  historical:           6.376101333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862250/"
    handle:    "nm0862250"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هوارد ثورستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurston"
    title: "Howard Thurston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurston"
    title: "Howard Thurston"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurston"
    title: "Howard Thurston"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1658967"
    title: "Howard Thurston"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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