# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-shayler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:44.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-shayler"
name: "David Shayler"
slug: "david-shayler"
description: "David Shayler is a former British MI5 officer and a whistle-blower. Shayler was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for passing secret documents to The Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman."
tagline: "MI5 whistleblower"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Shayler_Axis_for_Peace_2005-11-18.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1965-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.84986
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديڤيد شايلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler"
    title: "David Shayler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler"
    title: "David Shayler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shayler"
    title: "David Shayler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デイビット・シェイラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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