# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-harding
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:25:27.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-harding"
name: "Matt Harding"
slug: "matt-harding"
description: "Matthew Harding is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity who is known as Dancing Matt, for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since received widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets, and was hired by Visa to star in their Travel Happy campaign in 2008."
tagline: "American traveler, video game designer and Internet celebrity"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Harding_in_Tokyo_1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "YouTubers"
  slug: "youtubers"
profileType:
  name: "YouTuber"
  slug: "youtuber"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15222076"
birthDate: "1976-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.52
  momentum:             2.551020408163265
  historical:           13.77739733333333
  currentAttention:     11.59554730983302
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 145000
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://wheretheheckismatt.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__TABIHzr7fUz5pQL2GU4w"
    handle:    "@baddancer"
    followers: 145000
sources:
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    title: "馬特·哈丁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_The_Hell_Is_Matt%3F"
    title: "Where The Hell Is Matt?"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%98_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92"
    title: "מאט הארדינג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0"
    title: "マット・ハーディング"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%B7_%ED%95%98%EB%94%A9"
    title: "맷 하딩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Harding"
    title: "Matt Harding"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Хардинг, Мэтт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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