# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:03:35.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-smith"
name: "Brendan Smith"
slug: "brendan-smith"
description: "Brendan Smith is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as chair of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party since May 2016. He has been a TD for Cavan–Monaghan since 1992. He previously served as chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2016 to 2020, Minister for Justice and Law Reform from January 2011 to March 2011, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 2008 to 2011, Minister of State for Children from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 2004 to 2007."
tagline: "Irish Fianna Fáil politician (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brendan_Smith_2024_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.013464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BrendanSmithTD"
    handle:    "BrendanSmithTD"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brendansmith.ie"
sources:
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith"
    title: "Brendan Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A)"
    title: "براندان سميث (سياسي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "براندان سميث (سياسى من جمهوريه ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith_(Politiker)"
    title: "Brendan Smith (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith_(politician)"
    title: "Brendan Smith (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Brendan Smith (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith"
    title: "Brendan Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Smith_(polityk)"
    title: "Brendan Smith (polityk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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