# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-carey-q610567
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:56:10.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-carey-q610567"
name: "Mike Carey"
slug: "mike-carey-q610567"
description: "Michael James Carey, also known by his pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels and films, whose credits include the long-running The Sandman spin-off series Lucifer, a three-year stint on Hellblazer, as well as his creator-owned titles Crossing Midnight and The Unwritten for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, a lengthy run on Marvel's X-Men, the 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts and its 2016 film adaptation."
tagline: "British writer of comic books, novels and films"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/10.10.10MikeCareyByLuigiNovi1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             2.566619915848527
  historical:           11.25260133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1259998/"
    handle:    "nm1259998"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mikeandpeter.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/970754a6-066c-45b5-8d6a-f1d944f39844"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "مايك كاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Майк Кери"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey_(writer)"
    title: "Mike Carey (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99"
    title: "מייק קארי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC_%EC%BC%80%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "마이크 케리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610567"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4076191"
    title: "Mike Carey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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