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Gavin McInnes
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Canadian far-right commentator
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Gavin Miles McInnes is a male writer, actor, entrepreneur, and comedian born in Hitchin, England, on July 17, 1970. He holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and Canada and is of Scottish ethnicity. McInnes speaks English and French, with English as his native language. He is affiliated with Rebel News and has worked in mass media, particularly in observational comedy, memoir, and punk rock genres. His professional activities began in 2009, and he has worked in New York City.
He was educated at Carleton University and Concordia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. McInnes is a member of the Catholic Church and resides in Larchmont, Ottawa, and Montreal. He has three children. As an author, he has produced ten works, including *Censored*, *Vice Dos and Don'ts*, *Completely Pip and Norton*, *Black Lies Matter*, and *The death of cool*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Censored
- Vice Dos and Don'ts
- Completely Pip and Norton
- Black Lies Matter
- The death of cool
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Film & TV
Hitchin, England, UK
Gavin McInnes is one of the founders of Vice, a Canadian-American writer and comedian, and right wing political commentator.
Known for
- Vice Is Broke — Self2025
- It's Not Funny Anymore: Vice to Proud Boys — Himself2024
- Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL — Self - Founder, Proud Boys (archive footage)2022
- White Noise — Self2020
- UXA: Thomas Seltzer's America2020
- Hoaxed — Self2019
- You Can’t Watch This — Self2019
- How to Kill 14 People Without Saying a Word — Self2018
- America Under Siege: Antifa2017
- Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine — Self - co-founder of Vice Media2017
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Gavin Miles McInnes , ( 1970-07-17 ) 17 July 1970 (age 55) , Hitchin, Hertfordshire , England
- Education
- Carleton University ( BA )
- Occupations
- Writer podcast host political commentator actor
- Known for
- Co-founder of Vice magazine, Founder of the Proud Boys , Founder of Censored.TV (now Compound Censored )
- Movement
- Hipsterism Far-right
- Spouse
- Emily Jendrisak ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 17 September 2005</span>"}]]}'>2005 )
- Website
- Compound Censored
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Miles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Hitchin
- Occupation
- podcaster
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Academic degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Field of work
- mass media
- Genre
- punk rock
- Official website
- freespeech.tv
- Image
- Gavin-McInnes-2015.png
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- New York City
- Residence
- Montreal
- Political ideology
- Islamophobia
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- date of birth
- 1970-07-17
- Commons category
- Gavin McInnes
- birth name
- Gavin Miles McInnes
- ethnic group
- Scottish people
- name in native language
- Gavin McInnes
- start of work period
- 2009-00-00
- member of
- Proud Boys
- interested in
- white genocide conspiracy theory
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Encyclopedic overview
Gavin Miles McInnes (/məˈkɪnɪs/; born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster, far-right commentator and founder of the Proud Boys. He is the host of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes on his website, Compound Censored. He co-founded Vice magazine in 1996 and relocated to the United States in 2001. In 2016 he founded the Proud Boys, an American far-right militant organization which was designated a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand after he left the group. McInnes has been described as promoting violence against political opponents but has argued that he has only supported political violence in self-defense and that he is not far-right or a supporter of fascism, instead identifying as "a fiscal conservative and libertarian."
Born to Scottish parents in Hertfordshire, England, McInnes emigrated to Canada as a child. He graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa before moving to Montreal and co-founding Vice with Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith. He relocated with Vice Media to New York City in 2001. During his time at Vice, McInnes was called a leading figure in the New York hipster subculture. He holds both Canadian and British citizenship and lives in Larchmont, New York.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gavin McInnes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.