# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-dobson-q300182
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:24:14.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-dobson-q300182"
name: "Frank Dobson"
slug: "frank-dobson-q300182"
description: "Frank Gordon Dobson was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he served in the First Blair ministry as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the Labour nominee for Mayor of London in 2000, finishing third behind Conservative Steven Norris and the winner, Labour-turned-Independent Ken Livingstone. Dobson stood down from his Parliament seat at the 2015 general election."
tagline: "British politician (1940-2019)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-03-15"
deathDate: "2019-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.frankdobson.co.uk/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump