# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-wessels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:28:19.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-wessels"
name: "Leon Wessels"
slug: "leon-wessels"
description: "Leon Wessels is a South African lawyer, politician, and activist who served in the National Party government during the apartheid years and was one of very few Afrikaner politicians to show public contrition for the acts of that government."
tagline: "South African politician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-04-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.57
  momentum:             1.585760517799353
  historical:           5.946221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  245
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ليون ويسليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wessels"
    title: "Leon Wessels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3229658"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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