# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-barrowman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:38:41.492Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-barrowman"
name: "John Barrowman"
slug: "john-barrowman"
description: "John Scot Barrowman is a Scottish-American actor, author, presenter, singer and comic book writer. He is known for his roles as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood (2006–2011), and as Malcolm Merlyn in the Arrowverse (2012–2019)."
tagline: "Scottish-American actor, author, and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Barrowman_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.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: "1967-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           72.93
  momentum:             3.655429118221825
  historical:           24.920264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 10600
platforms:
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    handle:    "JohnBarrowman"
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    handle:    "johnscotbarrowman"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "JohnBarrowmanMBE"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0057882"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgvJdVatySDBJJTIAM5R_lQ"
    handle:    "@johnbarrowmanmbe8837"
    followers: 10600
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
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    title: "ג'ון בארומן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "존 배로먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Barrowman"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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