# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ervine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:53:36.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ervine"
name: "David Ervine"
slug: "david-ervine"
description: "David Ervine was a Northern Irish Ulster Loyalist and politician who served as leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) from 2002 to 2007 and was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 1998 to 2007. During his youth Ervine was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was imprisoned for possessing bomb-making equipment, and planting a bomb on the Lisburn Road. Whilst in jail he became convinced of the benefits of a more political approach for loyalism and became involved with the PUP. As a leading PUP figure, Ervine helped to deliver the loyalist ceasefire of 1994."
tagline: "Northern Irish politician (1953-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/David_ervine.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-07-21"
deathDate: "2007-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.94
  momentum:             5.979381443298969
  historical:           6.379737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ervine"
    title: "David Ervine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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