# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lars-engqvist
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:14:19.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lars-engqvist"
name: "Lars Engqvist"
slug: "lars-engqvist"
description: "Lars Engqvist is a Swedish politician. He served as chairman of the youth organization of the Swedish Social Democrats from 1972 to 1978, and then worked as a journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of Arbetet, a Malmö-based newspaper. In the early 1990s, he was the mayor of Malmö, and then president of the Swedish Film Institute before receiving his first government appointment in 1998."
tagline: "Swedish politician and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lars_Engqvist_1992.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             5.172413793103448
  historical:           5.276962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Engqvist"
    title: "Lars Engqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%83%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "لارس انجكڤيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Engqvist"
    title: "Lars Engqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lars_Engqvist"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Engqvist"
    title: "Lars Engqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Engqvist"
    title: "Lars Engqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5854875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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