# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-gogan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:00:33.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-gogan"
name: "Larry Gogan"
slug: "larry-gogan"
description: "Lorcan \"Larry\" Gogan was an Irish broadcaster working for RTÉ. He was a disc jockey on RTÉ Gold having previously worked on RTÉ 2fm. His show was The Golden Hour, during which he played old favourites and classic songs from yesteryear. Gogan spun the first disc on Radio 2, \"Like Clockwork\" by The Boomtown Rats. Louis Walsh described him as one of \"the kings of Irish broadcasting\"."
tagline: "Irish broadcaster (1938-2020)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/fHB751P5dKjaMpPU6xcBJ4tPFiK.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1934-05-03"
deathDate: "2020-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.812744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2442930/"
    handle:    "nm2442930"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5081071"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gogan"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4467895"
    title: "Larry Gogan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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