# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-engell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:16:04.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-engell"
name: "Hans Engell"
slug: "hans-engell"
description: "Hans Engell is a Danish former politician and journalist, who until 6 September 2007 was the editor-in-chief of the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, a position he had held for seven years. As a member of the Conservative People's Party, he was Defence Minister of Denmark between 1982 and 1987, Justice Minister between 1989 and 1993, and leader of the party from 1993 to 1997, until he retired in disgrace after a drunk-driving incident."
tagline: "Danish politician and journalist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2ih3h582TktUGmmuBi7LG1H0aFh.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.76
  momentum:             3.28
  historical:           7.472642666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257082/"
    handle:    "nm0257082"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "هانس انجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Engell"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q514269"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4692367"
    title: "Hans Engell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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