# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-van-mechelen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:35.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-van-mechelen"
name: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
slug: "dirk-van-mechelen"
description: "Dirk Louis Maria Van Mechelen is a Belgian politician for Anders who served as Flemish Minister of Finance and Budget from 2001 to 2009 after having held the position for Town and Country Planning."
tagline: "Flemish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dirk_Van_Mechelen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             3.157894736842104
  historical:           4.60612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Van_Mechelen"
    title: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Van_Mechelen"
    title: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Van_Mechelen"
    title: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Van_Mechelen"
    title: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Van_Mechelen"
    title: "Dirk Van Mechelen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837981"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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