# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:32:25.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-macdonald"
name: "Ken Macdonald"
slug: "ken-macdonald"
description: "Kenneth Donald John Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, is a British lawyer and politician who served as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales from 2003 to 2008. In that office he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a recorder and defence barrister. He is a life peer in the House of Lords, where he sits as a crossbencher and was previously a Liberal Democrat. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford until 2021."
tagline: "British lawyer and politician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.719154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Macdonald%2C_Baron_Macdonald_of_River_Glaven"
    title: "Kenneth Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "كين ماكدونالد (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_(%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%89)"
    title: "كين ماكدونالد (قاضى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Лорд Макдональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Macdonald"
    title: "Ken Macdonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Macdonald"
    title: "Ken Macdonald"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1424230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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