# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-van-dyk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:16.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-van-dyk"
name: "Paul van Dyk"
slug: "paul-van-dyk"
description: "Matthias Paul, known professionally as Paul van Dyk is a German DJ, record producer and musician. Van Dyk was the first artist to receive a Grammy Award nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance/Electronic album for his 2003 release Reflections. He was voted World No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine in its annual Top 100 DJs poll in 2005 and 2006. Also, he was the first DJ to be named number one by Mixmag in 2005. By 2008, he had sold over 3 million albums worldwide."
tagline: "German DJ and trance music producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_van_Dyk_NO_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-12-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           78.42
  momentum:             9.904196174241896
  historical:           23.71988133333334
  currentAttention:     33.91405664826478
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  44
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1700000
platforms:
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    handle:    "7wU1naftD3lNq7rNsiDvOR"
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    handle:    "PAULVANDYK"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "paulvandyk"
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    handle:    "paulvandyk"
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    handle:    "nm1364729"
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    handle:    "@paulvandyk"
    followers: 1700000
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بول فان ديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол ван Дайк"
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    title: "פול ואן דייק"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul van Dyk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump