# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-walsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:11.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-walsh"
name: "Louis Walsh"
slug: "louis-walsh"
description: "Michael Louis Vincent Walsh is an Irish music manager and television personality. He has managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone, Jedward and Westlife, four of Ireland's most successful pop acts in the 1990s and 2000s. He has also served as a judge on television talent competition shows, including Popstars (2001–2002), You're a Star (2003–2004), The X Factor, and Ireland's Got Talent (2018–2019). In 2024, Walsh was a contestant on the twenty-third series of the reality show Celebrity Big Brother."
tagline: "Irish manager in the music industry"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Walsh2009July.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.02
  momentum:             9.074229231772607
  historical:           22.37509466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1123986/"
    handle:    "nm1123986"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Louis Walsh"
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    title: "Louis Walsh"
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    title: "Louis Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Louis Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Louis Walsh"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump