# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-namugala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:50.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-namugala"
name: "Catherine Namugala"
slug: "catherine-namugala"
description: "Catherine Namugala is a Zambian politician. She was the First Deputy Speaker of the Zambian Parliament until 2021. She was nominated to that position by President Edgar Lungu, on 18 September 2016. She is the former Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources in the Zambian Cabinet. She also served as a Member of Parliament (MP), representing Mafinga in the Zambian Parliament from 2001 until 2016. She was a member of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) party."
tagline: "Zambian politician"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1966-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.068862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Catherine Namugala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Catherine Namugala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Catherine Namugala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Catherine Namugala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Namugala"
    title: "Catherine Namugala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1051020"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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