# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kieron-gillen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:30:56.785Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kieron-gillen"
name: "Kieron Gillen"
slug: "kieron-gillen"
description: "Kieron Michael Gillen is a British comic book writer and former video game and music journalist. In comics, Gillen is known for his creator-owned series such as Once & Future (2019–2022), Die (2018–2021), Phonogram (2006–2016), and The Wicked + The Divine (2014–2019), the latter two co-created with artist Jamie McKelvie and published by Image. He is also known for numerous Marvel Comics projects, such as Journey into Mystery, Uncanny X-Men, and Young Avengers in the early 2010s and Star Wars comics in the mid-to-late 2010s including Darth Vader, Star Wars, and co-creation of the character Doctor Aphra who starred in her own ongoing spin-off comic series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra of which Gillen wrote the first 19 issues. He returned to the X-Men in the 2020s with multiple series during the Krakoan Age for the Destiny of X, Sins of Sinister and Fall of X storylines."
tagline: "British journalist and comics writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/10.16.11KieronGillenByLuigiNovi1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.130217333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump