# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-wander
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:59:04.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-wander"
name: "Thomas Wander"
slug: "thomas-wander"
description: "Thomas Wander also credited as Thomas Wanker, is an Austrian-born composer for film and television. While his original plans were to play piano in a jazz band, as a teenager he took notice of the emotional response he had to the scores for E.T. the Extraterrestrial and Once Upon a Time in America and grew an interest in film music. In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to study film composition at the University of Southern California. He has won the BMI Film Music Award in 2008 for his score in 10,000 BC, in 2010 for his score in the film 2012, and in 2014 for the score to White House Down. Wander frequently collaborates with fellow composer Harald Kloser on many of his projects, and is best known for his work on the films of director Roland Emmerich."
tagline: "Austrian-born composer for film and television"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.97
  momentum:             2.542372881355932
  historical:           12.88445066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911173/"
    handle:    "nm0911173"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.thomaswander.com/TW/index.html"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1FfiBHnnVZ6WWtUNF5KCWk"
    handle:    "Thomas Wander"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Вандер, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wanker"
    title: "Thomas Wanker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6d608819-131d-4f40-912e-59f060853d30"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wander"
    title: "Thomas Wander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "توماس وانكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wander"
    title: "Thomas Wander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wander"
    title: "Thomas Wander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wanker"
    title: "Thomas Wanker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wander"
    title: "Thomas Wander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wanker"
    title: "Thomas Wanker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "トーマス・ワンカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A7%88%EC%8A%A4_%EB%B0%A9%EC%BB%A4"
    title: "토마스 방커"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wanker"
    title: "Thomas Wanker"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6049"
    title: "Thomas Wander"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump