# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dirk-verhofstadt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:31:54.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dirk-verhofstadt"
name: "Dirk Verhofstadt"
slug: "dirk-verhofstadt"
description: "Dirk Verhofstadt is a Belgian social liberal and Rawlsian theorist and younger brother of former Belgian Prime Minister and former ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt. He has a keen interest in political philosophy, and his philosophical outlook is influenced by Karl Popper, John Stuart Mill, Cesare Beccaria, Thomas Paine, Amartya Sen, and Martha Nussbaum."
tagline: "Belgian philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dirk_Verhofstadt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.liberales.be"
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    title: "Dirk Verhofstadt"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Verhofstadt"
    title: "Dirk Verhofstadt"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Verhofstadt_(publicist)"
    title: "Dirk Verhofstadt (publicist)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump