# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emily-o-reilly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:13.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emily-o-reilly"
name: "Emily O'Reilly"
slug: "emily-o-reilly"
description: "Emily O'Reilly is an author and former journalist and broadcaster who became Ireland's first female Ombudsman in 2003, succeeding Kevin Murphy. On 3 July 2013, she was voted European Ombudsman by the European Parliament. She was re-elected in 2014 and in 2019, in each case for a mandate of five more years. She was educated at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and Harvard University, where she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism."
tagline: "Irish author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emily_O%E2%80%99Reilly_Senate_of_Poland.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           10.35857466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "اميلى او'ريلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Emily O’Reilly"
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    title: "Emily O'Reilly"
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    title: "Emily O'Reilly"
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    title: "Emily O’Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Emily O'Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_O'Reilly"
    title: "Emily O'Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Emily O'Reilly"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump