Dan Meyer
April 7, 1957 (67 years old) in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
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
Credits
- 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 - Sword swallower
- 2006 · 99 Most Bizarre as Self - Sword swallower
- 2001 · Unwrapped as Self - sword swallower