# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-cowen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:06.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-cowen"
name: "Brian Cowen"
slug: "brian-cowen"
description: "Brian Bernard Cowen is an Irish former politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 2008 to 2011. Cowen served as a TD for the constituency of Laois–Offaly from 1984 to 2011 and served in several ministerial roles between 1992 and 2011, including as Minister for Finance from 2004 to 2008 and Tánaiste from 2007 to 2008."
tagline: "Irish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Cowen_at_White_House_on_Saint_Patrick's_Day_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.78589866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump