# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-chown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:35:06.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcus-chown"
name: "Marcus Chown"
slug: "marcus-chown"
description: "Marcus Chown is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine."
tagline: "Science journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.877826666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Маркъс Чоун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Chown"
    title: "Marcus Chown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%BA%93%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E4%B9%94%E6%81%A9"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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