# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:56:41.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-hughes"
name: "Francis Hughes"
slug: "francis-hughes"
description: "Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Northern Ireland until his arrest following a shoot-out with the British Army in which a British soldier was killed. At his trial, he was sentenced to a total of 83 years' imprisonment; he died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Hughes was one of 22 Irish republicans who died on hunger-strike between 1917 and 1981."
tagline: "Volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1956-1981)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Francis_hughes.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-02-28"
deathDate: "1981-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.601481333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "فرنسيس هيوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proinsias_%C3%93_hAodha"
    title: "Proinsias Ó hAodha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Hughes"
    title: "Francis Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%9C%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4_%ED%9C%B4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "프랜시스 휴스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1388408"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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