Dan Meyer (performer)
Dan Meyer (born April 7, 1957) is an American performance artist, professional sword swallower, Ig Nobel Prize winning author and science lecturer, motivational corporate speaker and comedy entertainer, Upward Unlimited speaker and inspirational comedy Christian youth speaker. Meyer is internationally recognized as the world's leading authority on the art, history and science of sword swallowing as founder and president of the Sword Swallowers Association International (SSAI), winner of the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard for medical research on sword swallowing injuries, founder of World Sword Swallower's Day, and holder of 35 world records including 7 Guinness World Records.
As a performer, Meyer is known as an extreme sword swallower for swallowing up to 21 swords at once, as a Top 50 finalist on America's Got Talent, for swallowing a red-hot sword on Stan Lee's Superhumans, and as a multiple Ripley's Believe It or Not best known for swallowing swords underwater in a tank of sharks and stingrays and for pulling a car by swallowed sword.
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