# Mark Knopfler

> The fingerstyle guitarist who turned a Glasgow accent and a clean, economical guitar tone into one of the biggest-selling rock acts of the 1980s — then walked away from it to score films and make quieter records on his own terms.

*British musician*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1949-08-12
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Mark Freuder Knopfler was born in Glasgow on 12 August 1949 and raised in Newcastle. After graduating from the University of Leeds and spending three years as a college lecturer, he co-founded Dire Straits in 1977 with his younger brother David. The band recorded six albums, including Brothers in Arms in 1985, one of the best-selling albums in history; together they moved between 100 million and 120 million records. Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, and Knopfler began a solo career that has so far yielded ten albums. He has also composed and produced film scores for nine films — among them Local Hero, The Princess Bride, and Wag the Dog — and produced records for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman. Rolling Stone ranked him 27th on its list of the greatest guitarists of all time; he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 80.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.8 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 30.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 6.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #94
- **Category rank:** #224
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,170,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/MarkKnopfler (@MarkKnopfler)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/MarkKnopfler (@MarkKnopfler)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461360/ (@nm0461360)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FI0kxP0BWurTz8cB8BBug (@0FI0kxP0BWurTz8cB8BBug)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.markknopfler.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMRlJWmG6i7LP3TMSGpZVfw (@@markknopfler, 1,170,000 followers)

## Topics
#Musicians, #Singer / Musician, #Singer-Songwriter, #Music Production, #Music, #Classical, #United Kingdom, #Europe

## Sources
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