# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-howard
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:05:34.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-howard"
name: "Russell Howard"
slug: "russell-howard"
description: "Russell Joseph Howard is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. He has hosted his own television shows, Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour, and appeared on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week. He won \"Best Compère\" at the 2006 Chortle Awards and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for his 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Howard has cited comedians Lee Evans, Richard Pryor, and Frank Skinner as influences."
tagline: "British comedian and presenter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russell_Howard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1980-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           78.94
  momentum:             25
  historical:           15.04660133333334
  currentAttention:     81.81818181818181
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  149
  category: 13
totalFollowers: 1500000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/russellhoward"
    handle:    "russellhoward"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/russellhoward/"
    handle:    "russellhoward"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
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    handle:    "russellhoward"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/OfficialRussellHoward"
    handle:    "OfficialRussellHoward"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2224565/"
    handle:    "nm2224565"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.russell-howard.co.uk/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLxFpGiCi-u3RLx9uF8bOg"
    handle:    "@russellhoward"
    followers: 1500000
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "راسيل هوارد (ممثل كوميدي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راسيل هوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Howard"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E7%B4%A0%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E8%8F%AF%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "羅素·霍華德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5814891"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94005"
    title: "Russell Howard"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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