# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iain-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:12.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iain-gray"
name: "Iain Gray"
slug: "iain-gray"
description: "Iain Cumming Gray is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 to 2011. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the East Lothian constituency from 2007 to 2021, having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003. \nA former aid worker and teacher of mathematics and physics, Gray was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as MSP for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency, which he lost to Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party David McLetchie in 2003. Gray was returned to Holyrood in 2007 as MSP for East Lothian. Following Wendy Alexander's resignation as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party in 2008, Gray stood at the subsequent leadership election, and was elected with a 57.8% share of the vote in the second round."
tagline: "Scottish politician (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IainGrayMSP20110510.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.7
  momentum:             8.666666666666668
  historical:           5.486178666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IainGrayMSP"
    handle:    "IainGrayMSP"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.iaingray.org.uk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Gray"
    title: "Iain Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "لاين غراي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Gray"
    title: "Iain Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Gray"
    title: "Iain Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Gray"
    title: "Iain Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Gray"
    title: "Iain Gray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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