# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dafydd-wigley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:47:51.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dafydd-wigley"
name: "Dafydd Wigley"
slug: "dafydd-wigley"
description: "Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1981 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2000. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarfon from 1974 to 2001 and as the Member of the Welsh Assembly for Caernarfon from 1999 to 2003. In 2010, Wigley was granted life peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords in 2011, making him one of the party's only two Lords in the HOL."
tagline: "Welsh politician; former MP, Assembly Member and leader of Plaid Cymru (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierhead_re-opening_ail-agoriad_y_Pierhead_2010_(4406338094).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1943-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.392301333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dafydd_wigley"
    handle:    "dafydd_wigley"
sources:
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    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دافيد ويجلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley%2C_Baron_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley, Baron Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafydd_Wigley"
    title: "Dafydd Wigley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump