# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-boyle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:42.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-boyle"
name: "Mark Boyle"
slug: "mark-boyle"
description: "Mark Boyle, also known as The Moneyless Man, is an Irish writer best known for living without money from November 2008, and for living without modern technology since 2016. Boyle writes regularly for the British newspaper The Guardian, and has written about his experiences in several books. His first book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living, was published in 2010. His fourth book, The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology, was published in 2019.\nBoyle lives near Loughrea, in County Galway."
tagline: "Irish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Boyle%2C_2009_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.4
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.921474666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle_(Moneyless_Man)"
    title: "Mark Boyle (Moneyless Man)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "مارك بويل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle"
    title: "Mark Boyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle"
    title: "Mark Boyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Boyle"
    title: "Mark Boyle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB"
    title: "マーク・ボイル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6766811"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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