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Adam Savage
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American special effects specialist and television host
OverviewAI-generated
Adam Savage is an American actor, television presenter, film producer, and engineer. Born on July 15, 1967, in New York City, he resides in San Francisco and has been active in his career since 1996. He is a partner in business with Jamie Hyneman and serves as an employee of the Academy of Art University. Savage studied at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and speaks English.
He has authored several works, including *A professor's balderdash*, *The professor's hotchpotch*, *Beyond Bitcoin*, *Tarot for Beginners*, and *Primer : Moldmaking*. Savage has two children and identifies as an agnostic. He has a medical condition known as otosclerosis.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- A professor's balderdash
- The professor's hotchpotch
- Beyond Bitcoin
- Tarot for Beginners
- Primer : Moldmaking
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American industrial design and special effects designer/fabricator, actor, educator, and co-host of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adam Savage, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Alter Egos2026
- Triumph Presents: Let's Make a Poop Live — Self2024
- Attack of the Doc! — Self2023
- Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters — Self2022
- MythBusters: There's Your Problem — Self2021
- 流言终结者（精选版）2021
- Space Songs: Through the Distance — Self2020
- Cursed Films — Self2020
- Mythbusters Jr. — Himself - Host2019
- Savage Builds — Himself - Host2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
Discography
- Don’t Cry Tonight1983
- Tonight1984
- Only You / Turn Around1984
- Don't Cry Tonight ('89 Version)1989
- Ten Years Ago2010
- Love and Rain2020
- Eternity2026
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 896
- Total plays
- 2,071
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Adam+Savage">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,276x
- The variant call format and VCFtools
· 2011 · cited 15,745x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Adam Whitney Savage , ( 1967-07-15 ) July 15, 1967 (age 58) , New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- New York University - Tisch
- Occupations
- Special effects creator educational video presenter
- Known for
- Mythbusters Tested.com
- Spouse
- Julia Ward ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 )
- Channel
- Adam Savage's Tested
- Years active
- 2010–present
- Subscribers
- 7.2 million
- Views
- 1.812 billion
- Website
- adamsavage .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American special effects creator and educational video presenter. He is best known as the former co-host, with Jamie Hyneman, of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction. His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He hosts the TV program Savage Builds, which premiered on the Science Channel on June 14, 2019. His platform Adam Savage's Tested includes a website and a YouTube channel.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adam Savage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.