# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jian-ghomeshi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:02:43.010Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jian-ghomeshi"
name: "Jian Ghomeshi"
slug: "jian-ghomeshi"
description: "Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and former CBC personality. From 1990 to 2000, he was a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop band Moxy Früvous. In the 2000s, he became a television and radio broadcaster. He hosted, among others, the CBC Newsworld program Play (2002–2005), the CBC Radio One program The National Playlist (2005–2006), and the CBC Radio One program Q, which he co-created and hosted from 2007 to 2014."
tagline: "Canadian musician, broadcaster, and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jian_Ghomeshi_in_Vancouver_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.2
  momentum:             1.575920245398773
  historical:           7.689018666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486674/"
    handle:    "nm1486674"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/543325"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "چيان جوميشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "ژیان قمیشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Ghomeshi"
    title: "Jian Ghomeshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%98%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D9%85%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "ژیان قمشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Ghomeshi"
    title: "Jian Ghomeshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Ghomeshi"
    title: "Jian Ghomeshi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fa233ca3-dae8-4f9d-80bd-7ee13c324e70"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10861160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4427781"
    title: "Jian Ghomeshi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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