# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-austin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:13.553Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-austin"
name: "Ian Austin"
slug: "ian-austin"
description: "Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent, and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010."
tagline: "British politician (born 1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Austin_Official_Portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1965-03-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.32
  momentum:             2.506906077348066
  historical:           5.731862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IanAustinMP"
    handle:    "IanAustinMP"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/IanAustinMP"
    handle:    "IanAustinMP"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Austin"
    title: "Ian Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A)"
    title: "إيان أوستين (سياسي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "يان اوستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E6%81%A9%C2%B7%E5%A5%A7%E6%96%AF%E4%B8%81"
    title: "伊恩·奧斯丁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Austin"
    title: "Ian Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Austin"
    title: "Ian Austin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259935"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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