# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-sked
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:13:14.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-sked"
name: "Alan Sked"
slug: "alan-sked"
description: "Alan Sked is a Scottish Eurosceptic academic. He founded the Anti-Federalist League and its successor the UK Independence Party (UKIP), he later founded New Deal and then Prosper UK in opposition of UKIP. He is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics and has stood as a candidate in several parliamentary elections."
tagline: "Former Leader of the UK Independence Party (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Sked_in_conversation_with_Shayan_Barjesteh_van_Waalwijk_van_Doorn.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.12
  momentum:             12.44047619047619
  historical:           4.895256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "آلان سكيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked"
    title: "Alan Sked"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked"
    title: "Alan Sked"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked"
    title: "Alan Sked"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sked"
    title: "Alan Sked"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4707775"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump