# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/els-de-groen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:05.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/els-de-groen"
name: "Els de Groen"
slug: "els-de-groen"
description: "Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, generally known as Els de Groen, was a Dutch author and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament 2004–2009. She was a member of Europe Transparent, which sat with the Greens/EFA party group. As an MEP, she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Petitions, as well as a member of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Europe. De Groen died on 19 October 2025, at the age of 75."
tagline: "Dutch journalist, writer and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Els_de_Groen_(1987).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-12-23"
deathDate: "2025-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.elsdegroen.nl/"
sources:
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    title: "الس د جروين"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_de_Groen"
    title: "Els de Groen"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_de_Groen"
    title: "Els de Groen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
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    title: "Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Els de Groen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump