# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-entwistle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:15:55.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-entwistle"
name: "George Entwistle"
slug: "george-entwistle"
description: "George Edward Entwistle is a former broadcasting executive, who was Director-General of the BBC during 2012, succeeding Mark Thompson. After a career in magazine journalism, he joined BBC Television in 1989, becoming a producer with a primary focus on factual and political programmes. He rose to become the director of BBC Vision, and became the Director-General of the BBC on 17 September 2012."
tagline: "Former Director-General of the BBC"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.294458666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B6_%CE%88%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%8A%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BB"
    title: "Τζορτζ Έντουϊστλ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle"
    title: "George Entwistle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle"
    title: "George Entwistle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle"
    title: "George Entwistle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle"
    title: "George Entwistle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Entwistle"
    title: "George Entwistle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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