# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:37:57.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-watkins"
name: "Ian Watkins"
slug: "ian-watkins"
description: "Ian David Karslake Watkins was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Lostprophets from 1997 to 2012. Watkins founded Lostprophets with Lee Gaze in 1997, having previously been in a band called Fleshbind with him. Lostprophets released five studio albums, four of which made the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart, including Liberation Transmission which went to number 1 in 2006."
tagline: "Welsh musician and sex offender (1977–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Watkins_(2010)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-07-30"
deathDate: "2025-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           25.754804
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump