# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-smitherman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:17.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-smitherman"
name: "George Smitherman"
slug: "george-smitherman"
description: "George Smitherman is a former Canadian politician and broadcaster. He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election. Smitherman was the first openly gay member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) elected in Ontario, and the province's first openly gay cabinet minister."
tagline: "Canadian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Smitherman_Nomination_(cropped_2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.689526666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/g_smitherman"
    handle:    "g_smitherman"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.georgesmitherman.ca"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smitherman"
    title: "George Smitherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جورج سميثرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smitherman"
    title: "George Smitherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E6%8C%AF%E6%B0%91"
    title: "史振民"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smitherman"
    title: "George Smitherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smitherman"
    title: "George Smitherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210259"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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