# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaws
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:43:16.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaws"
name: "KAWS"
slug: "kaws"
description: "Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, is an American artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s, initially painted in 2D and later realized in 3D. Some of his characters are his own creations while others are reworked versions of existing icons."
tagline: "American artist and art collector (born 1974)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.79538266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://kawsone.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a9a6b98b-a0fd-4527-8597-ad2d8c201085"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws"
    title: "Kaws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAWS"
    title: "KAWS"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAWS"
    title: "KAWS"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws"
    title: "Kaws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAWS"
    title: "KAWS"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws_(artiste)"
    title: "Kaws (artiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws"
    title: "Kaws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BA"
    title: "カウズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws"
    title: "Kaws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaws"
    title: "Kaws"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E4%BC%8D%E6%96%AF"
    title: "卡伍斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3194367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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