# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-gonzales
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:26:49.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-gonzales"
name: "Mark Gonzales"
slug: "mark-gonzales"
description: "Mark Gonzales, also known as \"Gonz\", \"the Gonz\", and \"the Godfather\", is an American professional skateboarder and artist. A pioneer in the development of modern street skating, he is considered one of the first street-style skateboarders alongside Natas Kaupas. Gonzales and Kaupas are also credited with the first known boardslides on a handrail. Gonzales' pioneering influence on skateboarding has caused him to be known as the \"God Father\" of modern street skateboarding, and he was named the \"Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time\" by Transworld Skateboarding magazine in December 2011, where Gonzales was placed ahead of Tony Hawk (2nd) and Rodney Mullen (3rd)."
tagline: "American skateboarder (born 1968)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1968-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.47
  momentum:             2.792007266121709
  historical:           8.320178666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 67
totalFollowers: 46500
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327542/"
    handle:    "nm0327542"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYoLkWWbePSudHzWLMwZacw"
    handle:    "@tulumize"
    followers: 46500
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%81%AC_%EA%B3%A4%EC%9E%98%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "마크 곤잘레스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gonzales"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900081"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4983306"
    title: "Mark Gonzales"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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