# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-batten
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:09:17.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-batten"
name: "Gerard Batten"
slug: "gerard-batten"
description: "Gerard Joseph Batten is a British politician who served as the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2018 to 2019. He was a founding member of the party in 1993, and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2004 to 2019."
tagline: "British politician (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GerardBattenwithProtestors-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.71
  momentum:             5.08668547804974
  historical:           11.09173333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/GerardBattenUK"
    handle:    "GerardBattenUK"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/gerardbattenarmy/"
    handle:    "gerardbattenarmy"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/gerard.batten"
    handle:    "gerard.batten"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://gerardbattenmep.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جيرارد باتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Баттен, Джерард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Batten"
    title: "Gerard Batten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1510131"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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