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Dan Meyer

Biography

Dan Meyer is an American sword swallower, inspirational TED speaker, and multiple Guinness World record holder in sword swallowing who has been featured on over 100 TV programs in 60 countries, 15 Got Talent competitions, as finalist on America's Got Talent Season 3 2008 and Golden Buzzer winner/finalist on Sweden's Talang Season 10 2023, who is internationally recognized as the world's leading expert in sword swallowing as a global TEDx speaker on 9 TED talks, for his award-winning medical research on sword swallowing published in the British Medical Journal that won him the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard University.

Known For

American Carny: True Tales from the Circus Sideshow
American Carny: True Tales from the Circus Sideshow

Filmography

2016 Got Talent España
as Self - Tragasables
2015 The Day I Almost Died
as Self - Sword swallower
2014 Tú Sí Que Vales
as Self - Mangiaspade
2013 Freakshow
as Self - Sword swallower
2012 The Ricki Lake Show
as Self - Sword swallower
2010 Stan Lee's Superhumans
as Self - Sword swallower
2009 Supertalent
as Self - Sword swallower
2009 La vie est un cirque
as Self - avaleur de sabres
2008 Huckabee
as Self - Sword swallower
2008 American Carny: True Tales from the Circus Sideshow
as Self / Sword swallower
2007 The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self - Ig Nobel Prize winning sword swallower
2007 Sweden's Got Talent
as Själv - Svärdslukare
2007 Sweden's Got Talent
as Själv - Svärdslukare Gulden Buzzer winner
2007 Australia's Got Talent
as Self - Sword swallower
2006 America's Got Talent
as Self
2006 99 Most Bizarre
as Self - Sword swallower
2001 Unwrapped
as Self - sword swallower