# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gavin-strang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:46:01.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gavin-strang"
name: "Gavin Strang"
slug: "gavin-strang"
description: "Gavin Steel Strang is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 1970 until 2010. He served as a minister in the 1974–79 Labour government under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, as well as in the Cabinet under Tony Blair. By the time of his retirement at the 2010 general election, he was the longest-serving Scottish MP."
tagline: "Scottish politician (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gavin_Strang_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1943-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.811808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "جاڤين سترانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Strang"
    title: "Gavin Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Strang"
    title: "Gavin Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Strang"
    title: "Gavin Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Strang"
    title: "Gavin Strang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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