# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emmanuel-de-bethune
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:54:05.142Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emmanuel-de-bethune"
name: "Emmanuel de Bethune"
slug: "emmanuel-de-bethune"
description: "Baron Emmanuel Pierre Marie Ghislain de Bethune was a Belgian politician. He was the Mayor of Kortrijk from 1987 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 2000. He went on to found the Bethune Foundation, a foundation used to preserve the library collections of the Bethune family."
tagline: "Mayor of Kortrijk, Belgium"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De_bethune_Emmanuel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1930-07-18"
deathDate: "2011-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.003636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ايمانويل دي بيثيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Bethune"
    title: "Emmanuel de Bethune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Bethune"
    title: "Emmanuel de Bethune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_de_Bethune"
    title: "Emmanuel de Bethune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Pierre_de_Bethune"
    title: "Emmanuel Pierre de Bethune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3052904"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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