# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katrin-saks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:50.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katrin-saks"
name: "Katrin Saks"
slug: "katrin-saks"
description: "Katrin Saks is an Estonian politician and journalist. From 1999 to 2002, she was Minister of Population and Ethnic Affairs in the cabinet of Mart Laar. She was the vice-chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party from 2005 to 2010. In October 2006 she became Member of the European Parliament, replacing Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who had been elected President of Estonia. She lost her seat in the 2009 European election, but shortly regained it, when on 7 April 2014 she replaced Ivari Padar who became Estonian Minister for Agriculture, until in July she was succeeded by Marju Lauristin following the 2014 European election. As of 2011, she is a director of Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School."
tagline: "Estonian politician (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katrinsaks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.52
  momentum:             10.53475935828877
  historical:           7.668934666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "كاترين ساكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "کاترین ساکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrin_Saks"
    title: "Katrin Saks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535426"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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