# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-may
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:04:41.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-may"
name: "James May"
slug: "james-may"
description: "James Daniel May is an English television presenter, author and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme Top Gear from 2003 until 2015 and the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon Prime Video from 2016 to 2024. He also served as a director of the production company W. Chump & Sons."
tagline: "English television presenter and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_May_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-01-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.88
  momentum:             15.48060812142716
  historical:           26.19581733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MrJamesMay"
    handle:    "MrJamesMay"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jamesmaybloke/"
    handle:    "jamesmaybloke"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JamesMay"
    handle:    "JamesMay"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561982/"
    handle:    "nm0561982"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2499877-4dae-405d-a530-c3f853899973"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس ماي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس ماى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%AD%CE%B9"
    title: "Τζέιμς Μέι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "جیمز می"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99"
    title: "ג'יימס מיי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ジェームズ・メイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%EB%A9%94%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "제임스 메이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEeimss_Mejs"
    title: "Džeimss Mejs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%B9"
    title: "Жеймс Мэй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_May"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/216269"
    title: "James May"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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