# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jason-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:43:04.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jason-silva"
name: "Jason Silva"
slug: "jason-silva"
description: "Jason Luis Silva Mishkin is a Venezuelan-born American television personality, short filmmaker, futurist, and public speaker. He is known for hosting the National Geographic documentaries Brain Games and Origins. He has stated that his goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science. The Atlantic describes Silva as \"A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age\". Silva writes and produces short films, is a former presenter on Current TV, and lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology, and humanity."
tagline: "Venezuelan television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jason_Silva_5.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             17.64331210191083
  historical:           9.442876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JasonSilva"
    handle:    "JasonSilva"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2094181/"
    handle:    "nm2094181"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%82%91%E6%A3%AE%C2%B7%E5%B8%AD%E7%88%BE%E7%93%A6"
    title: "傑森·席爾瓦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "جيسون سيلفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "جيسون سيلفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Silva"
    title: "Jason Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Silva_(presentador)"
    title: "Jason Silva (presentador)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "جیسون سیلوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%94"
    title: "ג'ייסון סילבה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "जेसन सिल्वा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEeisons_Silva"
    title: "Džeisons Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Silva"
    title: "Jason Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6163482"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1338091"
    title: "Jason Silva"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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