# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-mcfarlane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:41:11.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-mcfarlane"
name: "Brendan McFarlane"
slug: "brendan-mcfarlane"
description: "Brendan McFarlane was an Irish republican. Born into a Roman Catholic family, he was brought up in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, Northern Ireland. At 16, he left Belfast to train as a priest in a north Wales seminary. He joined the Provisional IRA in 1969. In 1976, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his leading role in the Bayardo Bar attack which left 1 UVF volunteer and 4 civilians dead, injuring 50 others."
tagline: "IRA member"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brendan_McFarlane_(1986).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951"
deathDate: "2025-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             0.7933237738917367
  historical:           7.721098666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12183119/"
    handle:    "nm12183119"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "براندان ماكفرلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "برندان مک‌فارلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McFarlane"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4961001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3909662"
    title: "Brendan McFarlane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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