# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gauke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:35.664Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gauke"
name: "David Gauke"
slug: "david-gauke"
description: "Sir David Michael Gauke is a British political commentator, solicitor, and former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2019. He served in the Cabinet under Theresa May, most notably as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor from 2018 to 2019. First elected as a Conservative, Gauke had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and until the dissolution sat as an independent politician."
tagline: "British politician and solicitor (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Mr_David_Gauke_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1971-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump