# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-hunkin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:15:30.162Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-hunkin"
name: "Tim Hunkin"
slug: "tim-hunkin"
description: "Timothy Mark Trelawney Hunkin is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist living in Suffolk, England. He is best known for creating the Channel Four television series The Secret Life of Machines, in which he explains the workings and history of various household devices. He has also created museum exhibits for institutions across the UK, and designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly for entertainment. Hunkin's works are distinctive, often recognisable by his unique style of papier-mâché sculpture, his pen and ink cartoons, and his offbeat sense of humour."
tagline: "British engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Hunkin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           64.58
  momentum:             2.066271244439375
  historical:           6.364041333333334
  currentAttention:     6.198347107438016
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 185
totalFollowers: 129000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/timhunkin"
    handle:    "timhunkin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1759056/"
    handle:    "nm1759056"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.timhunkin.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGrpLw1W3P1_BC4J-Hpytww"
    handle:    "@timhunkin1"
    followers: 129000
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Ханкин, Тим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunkin"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunkin"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunkin"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunkin"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunkin"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2420686"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2008870"
    title: "Tim Hunkin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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