# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-mackaye
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:01:20.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-mackaye"
name: "Ian MacKaye"
slug: "ian-mackaye"
description: "Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American musician. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.–based independent record label, and the frontman of hardcore punk band Minor Threat and post-hardcore band Fugazi. MacKaye was also the bassist for the short-lived band the Teen Idles, and frontman for Embrace, and Pailhead, a collaboration with the band Ministry. MacKaye is a member of The Evens, a two-piece indie rock group he formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001. In 2015 he formed the band Coriky with Farina and his Fugazi bandmate Joe Lally."
tagline: "American singer and record label owner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_MacKaye_at_the_Brooklyn_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1962-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.43380666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1235334"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump