# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-young-q37323
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:04:48.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-young-q37323"
name: "Jeff Young"
slug: "jeff-young-q37323"
description: "Jeffrey \"Jeff\" Young is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album So Far, So Good... So What!. In 1998, Young co-wrote, produced and played on the world-fusion album Chameleon by Badi Assad. In addition to his subsequent music projects, he served as a writer for Guitar for the Practicing Musician."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeff_Young.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.05065733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10088615/"
    handle:    "nm10088615"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.reverbnation.com/soulson11"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيف يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جیف یونق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young_(musicien)"
    title: "Jeff Young (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%ED%94%84_%EC%98%81"
    title: "제프 영"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Янг, Джефф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young"
    title: "Jeff Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%84_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Джефф Янг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeff Young"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump