# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:19:40.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-higgins"
name: "Joe Higgins"
slug: "joe-higgins"
description: "Joe Higgins is an Irish former Socialist Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1997 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2016. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2009 to 2011."
tagline: "Irish socialist politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Higgins_TD%2C_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             13.53658536585366
  historical:           8.751945333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://joehiggins.ie/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جو هيغينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جو هيجينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins"
    title: "Joe Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins_(politician)"
    title: "Joe Higgins (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Joe Higgins (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins"
    title: "Joe Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins"
    title: "Joe Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Higgins"
    title: "Joe Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Хиггинс, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1389005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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