# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/randall-munroe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:50.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/randall-munroe"
name: "Randall Munroe"
slug: "randall-munroe"
description: "Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, titled xkcd: Volume 0, he has written four books: What If?, Thing Explainer, How To, and What If? 2."
tagline: "American cartoonist, author and engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Randall_Munroe_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1984-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://xkcd.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump