# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-west-baron-west-of-spithead
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:44:04.720Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-west-baron-west-of-spithead"
name: "Alan West, Baron West of Spithead"
slug: "alan-west-baron-west-of-spithead"
description: "Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, is a retired admiral of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2002 to 2006."
tagline: "British admiral (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_West_of_Spithead_crop_2%2C_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.79
  momentum:             17.98616761594792
  historical:           5.781578666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alan West, Baron West of Spithead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلان ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_West%2C_Baron_West_of_Spithead"
    title: "Alan West, Baron West of Spithead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_West%2C_Baron_West_of_Spithead"
    title: "Alan West, Baron West of Spithead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_West"
    title: "Alan West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Вест, Алан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1302609"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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