# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanma-akashiya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:29:49.749Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanma-akashiya"
name: "Sanma Akashiya"
slug: "sanma-akashiya"
description: "Sanma Akashiya  is a Japanese comedian, TV presenter, radio personality and actor most commonly known as Sanma-san. His real name is Takafumi Sugimoto . His talent agency is Yoshimoto Kogyo and his shishô (master) back when he studied rakugo is Shōfukutei Matsunosuke."
tagline: "Japanese comedian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/AkashiyaSanma.png/330px-AkashiyaSanma.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.33
  momentum:             0.6600496277915633
  historical:           12.991904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1231297/"
    handle:    "nm1231297"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Vlk3oMOxdvcUV3f6cfHBX"
    handle:    "1Vlk3oMOxdvcUV3f6cfHBX"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2105142"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "سانما اكاشيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanma_Akashiya"
    title: "Sanma Akashiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanma_Akashiya"
    title: "Sanma Akashiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "سانما آکاشیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanma_Akashiya"
    title: "Sanma Akashiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanma_Akashiya"
    title: "Sanma Akashiya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E7%9F%B3%E5%AE%B6%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%E3%81%BE"
    title: "明石家さんま"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%B9%B4%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%BC_%EC%82%B0%EB%A7%88"
    title: "아카시야 산마"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BC%D0%B0"
    title: "Акасія Санма"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E7%9F%B3%E5%AE%B6%E7%A7%8B%E5%88%80%E9%B1%BC"
    title: "明石家秋刀鱼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E7%9F%B3%E5%AE%B6%E7%A7%8B%E5%88%80%E9%B1%BC"
    title: "明石家秋刀鱼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/63c6d965-8cd6-418b-979c-3ccf3975ad15"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1240297"
    title: "Sanma Akashiya"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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