# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diane-james
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:10.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diane-james"
name: "Diane James"
slug: "diane-james"
description: "Diane Martine James is a British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2014 to 2019. She was briefly leader-elect of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from September 2016 to October 2016, but resigned before formalising her leadership. At the time of her election to the European Parliament, James was one of three UKIP MEPs for South East England, before joining the Brexit Party in 2019."
tagline: "British politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diane_James_(15386468356)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.64
  momentum:             11.41592920353982
  historical:           8.772753333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DianeJamesMEP"
    handle:    "DianeJamesMEP"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Джеймс, Диана"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "ديان چيمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Jamesov%C3%A1"
    title: "Diane Jamesová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_James"
    title: "Diane James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16751268"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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