# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caren-lay
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:34.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/caren-lay"
name: "Caren Lay"
slug: "caren-lay"
description: "Caren Nicole Lay is a German politician. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and has been deputy chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the deputy chairpersons of her party. In November 2019, Lay unsuccessfully applied to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht as co-chairperson of the Die Linke parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She was defeated by Amira Mohamed Ali in a competitive vote."
tagline: "German politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2020-02-13_Caren_Lay_(Bundestagsprojekt_2020)_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%933.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1972-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.63
  momentum:             13.7122969837587
  historical:           5.337550666666667
  currentAttention:     62.32862265344863
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 614
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/CarenLay"
    handle:    "CarenLay"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/caren.lay/"
    handle:    "caren.lay"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@caren.lay.mdb"
    handle:    "caren.lay.mdb"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/caren.lay"
    handle:    "caren.lay"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.caren-lay.de/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7EEBfuPPRGMWw2MvxBIkA"
    handle:    "@carenlay1"
    followers: 614
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Lay"
    title: "Caren Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "كارين لاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Lay"
    title: "Caren Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Lay"
    title: "Caren Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Lay"
    title: "Caren Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Lay"
    title: "Caren Lay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1035894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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