# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/the-minimalists
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:30:34.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/the-minimalists"
name: "The Minimalists"
slug: "the-minimalists"
description: "The Minimalists are American authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and public speakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who promote a minimalist lifestyle. They are known for the Netflix documentaries Minimalism (2016) and the Emmy-nominated Less Is Now (2021); the New York Times bestselling book Love People, Use Things (2021); The Minimalists Podcast; and their minimalism blog. Educator T.K. Coleman joined The Minimalists as podcast co-host in August 2022."
tagline: "American duo promoting minimalist lifestyle"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Minimalists.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.323308270676692
  historical:           5.520054666666667
  currentAttention:     5.187969924812029
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 688000
platforms:
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    handle:    "theminimalists"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/theminimalists/"
    handle:    "theminimalists"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/theminimalists"
    handle:    "theminimalists"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.theminimalists.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbFiBwMYMXAqifXF4xo5Uw"
    handle:    "@theminimalists"
    followers: 688000
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    title: "منی مالسٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump