# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-yates
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:58:43.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-yates"
name: "Ivan Yates"
slug: "ivan-yates"
description: "Ivan Yates is an Irish broadcaster, businessman and former politician. He was elected as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency at the 1981 general election and at each election until his retirement from politics in 2002. He also served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry from 1994 to 1997. Since 2009, Yates has been active as a political commentator."
tagline: "Irish politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Agriculture_Council%2C_1980th_meeting_-_extracts_from_the_final_joint_press_conference_by_Ivan_Yates_%28cropped%29.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.38
  momentum:             8.15533980582524
  historical:           6.354069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3141304/"
    handle:    "nm3141304"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Yates"
    title: "Ivan Yates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "إيفان ييتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ايفان ييتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Yates_(Politiker)"
    title: "Ivan Yates (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Yates"
    title: "Ivan Yates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Yates"
    title: "Ivan Yates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1240913"
    title: "Ivan Yates"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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