# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:59:20.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-hughes"
name: "Brendan Hughes"
slug: "brendan-hughes"
description: "Brendan Hughes was a leading Irish republican, revolutionary socialist, and former Officer Commanding (OC) of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). His reputation with the republican cause would lead to nicknames like The Dark, and Darkie. He was the leader of the 1980 Irish hunger strike."
tagline: "Irish republican"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Brendan_hughes.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1948-10-16"
deathDate: "2008-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.46
  momentum:             5.217504236039866
  historical:           7.323708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughes"
    title: "Brendan Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "براندان هيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "براندان هيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%E2%80%99%D1%8E%D0%B7"
    title: "Брэндан Г’юз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughes"
    title: "Brendan Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughes"
    title: "Brendan Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughes"
    title: "Brendan Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Hughes"
    title: "Brendan Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960931"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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