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Also known as Mark Edward Fischbach, Mark Fischbach

Mark Edward Fischbach ( ; born June 28, 1989), known professionally as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. One of the most popular YouTubers on the platform, he is known for his "Let's Play" videos of indie horror games. He was listed by Forbes as the third-highest-paid content creator on the platform in 2022, and has won four Streamy Awards and a Golden Joystick Award. He has spun off his YouTube fame into a notable media career, venturing into acting and filmmaking.

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Mark Edward Fischbach, known by the pseudonym Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, vlogger, filmmaker, and actor. Born in Honolulu on June 28, 1989, he holds United States citizenship and resides in Los Angeles. He attended the University of Cincinnati and speaks English and Korean. His professional career began in 2012.

Fischbach has received a Streamy Award and has been nominated for an Emmy Award. His online presence includes 37,400,000 social media followers and a total of 22,921,584,764 viewers or listeners. He is also credited as an author with one work titled Markiplier.

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1989

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67,107 total

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Key facts

Youtuber.name
Markiplier
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Markiplier in We Tried Peanut Free Candy from YouTube at 0-1-16 (cropped).png
Youtuber.caption
Fischbach in 2025
Youtuber.birth_name
Mark Edward Fischbach
Youtuber.birth_place
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
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Youtuber.youtube_display_name
Markiplier
Youtuber.youtube_years_active
2012–present
Youtuber.youtube_subscribers
38.4 million
Youtuber.youtube_views
23.2 billion
Youtuber.stats_update
February 25, 2026

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  • Personal life
  • Filmography
  • Film
  • Acting roles
  • Television
  • Web series
  • Music videos
  • Podcasts
  • Video games
  • Awards and nominations
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
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Mark Edward Fischbach ( ; born June 28, 1989), known professionally as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, and actor. One of the most popular YouTubers on the platform, he is known for his "Let's Play" videos of indie horror games. He was listed by Forbes as the third-highest-paid content creator on the platform in 2022, and has won four Streamy Awards and a Golden Joystick Award. He has spun off his YouTube fame into a notable media career, venturing into acting and filmmaking.

After joining YouTube in 2012, Fischbach became popular on the platform with Let's Plays of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the ''Five Nights at Freddy's series; as of February 25th, 2026, his channel had over 38 million subscribers. He signed with talent agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016. While with the agency, he released a clothing line, wrote and directed the YouTube Original series A Heist with Markiplier (2019) and In Space with Markiplier'' (2022), and hosted or co-hosted two podcasts, which reached No. 1 on Spotify.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Markiplier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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