# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-mcguinness
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:48:29.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-mcguinness"
name: "Paul McGuinness"
slug: "paul-mcguinness"
description: "Paul McGuinness is an Irish talent manager. He was the founder of Principle Management Limited, a popular music act management company based in Dublin, Ireland. He was the manager of the rock band U2 from 1978 to 2013."
tagline: "Irish businessman, music publisher and manager of U2"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_McGuinness_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             6.291793313069907
  historical:           11.659544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570138/"
    handle:    "nm0570138"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98"
    title: "პოლ მაკგინესი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB_(%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80)"
    title: "Макгиннесс, Пол (менеджер)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McGuinness"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/41a66e71-1c64-4950-909b-70b54c60b0c9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317221"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1452506"
    title: "Paul McGuinness"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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