# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenny-macaskill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:13.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenny-macaskill"
name: "Kenny MacAskill"
slug: "kenny-macaskill"
description: "Kenneth Wright MacAskill is a Scottish politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2007 to 2014 and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016. He later served as Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2019 to 2024. A former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he defected to the Alba Party in 2021 and served as the party's leader, after winning a 2025 leadership election until the party's dissolution in March 2026."
tagline: "Scottish politician (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenny_MacAskill%2C_Cabinet_Secretary_for_Justice_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.58
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.346514666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KennyMacAskill"
    handle:    "KennyMacAskill"
sources:
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    title: "Кени Макаскил"
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    title: "كينى ماكاسكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinneach_MacAsgaill"
    title: "Coinneach MacAsgaill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
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  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill"
    title: "Kenny MacAskill"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983174"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump