# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-defensor-sr
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:58:37.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-defensor-sr"
name: "Arthur Defensor, Sr."
slug: "arthur-defensor-sr"
description: "Arthur \"Art\" Doligosa Defensor Sr. is a Filipino politician and a statesman who served as the governor of Iloilo from 1992 until 2001, and again from 2010 until 2019. He also served as Representative of the 3rd District of Iloilo from 2001 to 2010. He was the Majority Leader of the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He is currently a member of the PDP–Laban. He is married to Cosette Rivera Defensor."
tagline: "Filipino politician, b. 1941"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Defensor_Sr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1941-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.25
  momentum:             6.783175355450237
  historical:           5.368654666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Defensor_Sr."
    title: "Arthur Defensor Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ارثر ديفينسور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Defensor_Sr."
    title: "Arthur Defensor Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Defensor_Sr."
    title: "Arthur Defensor Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Defensor_Sr."
    title: "Arthur Defensor Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Defensor_sr."
    title: "Arthur Defensor sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4798444"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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