# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-smith-baron-smith-of-finsbury
# Generated: 2026-08-16T12:54:38.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-smith-baron-smith-of-finsbury"
name: "Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury"
slug: "chris-smith-baron-smith-of-finsbury"
description: "Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury from 1983 to 2005 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2005 and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 2025."
tagline: "British life peer and former Cabinet minister (1997–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Smith_of_Finsbury_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1951-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.95
  momentum:             3.556851311953353
  historical:           9.115169333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://members.parliament.uk/member/186/contact"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith%2C_Nam_t%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bc_Smith_x%E1%BB%A9_Finsbury"
    title: "Chris Smith, Nam tước Smith xứ Finsbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "كريس سميث، بارون سميث من فينسبري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "كريس سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith%2C_Baron_Smith_of_Finsbury"
    title: "Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith%2C_Baron_Smith_of_Finsbury"
    title: "Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(homme_politique%2C_1951)"
    title: "Chris Smith (homme politique, 1951)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(politico)"
    title: "Chris Smith (politico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9_(%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%E7%94%B7%E7%88%B5)"
    title: "クリス・スミス (フィンズベリーのスミス男爵)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophorus_Smith"
    title: "Christophorus Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(brytyjski_polityk)"
    title: "Chris Smith (brytyjski polityk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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