# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-rowe
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:34:20.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-rowe"
name: "Mike Rowe"
slug: "mike-rowe"
description: "Michael Gregory Rowe is an American television host and narrator. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs and the series Somebody's Gotta Do It originally developed for CNN. He hosted a series produced for Facebook called Returning the Favor in which he found people doing good deeds and did something for them in return. He also hosts a podcast titled The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe."
tagline: "American television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Rowe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-03-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           77.71
  momentum:             13.29912775782453
  historical:           16.64123333333333
  currentAttention:     60.45058071738421
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 122
totalFollowers: 1330000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mikeroweworks"
    handle:    "mikeroweworks"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mikerowe/"
    handle:    "mikerowe"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe"
    handle:    "TheRealMikeRowe"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1192046/"
    handle:    "nm1192046"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mikerowe.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKQGbLqpXP7f074dydjZrEg"
    handle:    "@therealmikerowe"
    followers: 1330000
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "مايك رو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%83"
    title: "Майк Роу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6"
    title: "マイク・ロウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC_%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "마이크 로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%A5%E5%8F%AF%C2%B7%E7%BE%85"
    title: "麥可·羅"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455808"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4127064"
    title: "Mike Rowe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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