# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-flansburgh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:58:06.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-flansburgh"
name: "John Flansburgh"
slug: "john-flansburgh"
description: "John Conant Flansburgh is an American musician and a co-founder of alternative rock band They Might Be Giants with John Linnell, which was formed in 1982. He is a lead writer and singer and plays rhythm guitar for the band."
tagline: "American musician (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/They_Might_Be_Giants_(5210834578).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: "1960-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.76852133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281241/"
    handle:    "nm0281241"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "John Flansburgh"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/36248428-08ff-4313-abe6-0ebbcaccb4f7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چوهن فلانسبورج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flansburgh"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323653"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56900"
    title: "John Flansburgh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump