# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chen-ding-nan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:14.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chen-ding-nan"
name: "Chen Ding-nan"
slug: "chen-ding-nan"
description: "Chen Ding-nan, sometimes transliterated Chen Ting-nan or referred to as David Chen, was a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and environmentalist who served as Minister of Justice and was known as a leader of the country's anti-nuclear movement. Due to the 9–13 July 2002 state visit to the United States of America Chen became the first Taiwan government official since 1979 to have been invited into the White House."
tagline: "Taiwanese politician (1943-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Picture_of_%E9%99%B3%E5%AE%9A%E5%8D%97_(Chen_Ding-nan%2C_sometimes_Chen_Ting-nan)_from_the_website_of_The_Legislative_Yuan_Republic_of_China_(%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%8B%E7%AB%8B%E6%B3%95%E9%99%A2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1943-09-29"
deathDate: "2006-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.69
  momentum:             0.267987183221672
  historical:           5.593566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mr-clean.org.tw"
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Ding-nan"
    title: "Chen Ding-nan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Ding-nan"
    title: "Chen Ding-nan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Ding-nan"
    title: "Chen Ding-nan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%AE%9A%E5%8D%97"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2n_T%C4%93ng-l%C3%A2m"
    title: "Tân Tēng-lâm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%AE%9A%E5%8D%97"
    title: "陳定南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256274"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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