# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/markos-kounalakis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:33.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/markos-kounalakis"
name: "Markos Kounalakis"
slug: "markos-kounalakis"
description: "Markos Kounalakis is an American syndicated journalist and scholar who is the second gentleman of California as the husband of lieutenant governor Eleni Kounalakis. He writes a syndicated weekly foreign affairs column for The Miami Herald and McClatchy-Tribune News and is a frequent foreign affairs analyst for CBS News and CNN International."
tagline: "American journalist and Second Gentleman of California"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Markos_Kounalakis%2C_spouse_of_U.S._Ambassador_to_Hunagary%2C_and_Maj._Cameron_Shirley%2C_U.S._Embassy_Attache_Office_talk_on_board_a_C-17_Globemaster_III_at_Budapest%2C_Hungary%2C_July_27%2C_2012._120727-F-PB969-063.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.860089333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KounalakisM"
    handle:    "KounalakisM"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.markoskounalakis.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ماركوس كونالاكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Μάρκος Κουναλάκης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Kounalakis"
    title: "Markos Kounalakis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Куналакис, Маркос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6771306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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