# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-whittingdale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:05.315Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-whittingdale"
name: "John Whittingdale"
slug: "john-whittingdale"
description: "Sir John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maldon since 1992 and Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care since July 2024. He previously served as Culture Secretary from 2015 to 2016. Whittingdale was most recently Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries and Minister of State for Data and Digital Infrastructure from May to December 2023, during the maternity leave of Julia Lopez."
tagline: "British politician (born 1959)"
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  isoCode: "GB"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump