# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-orban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:35:38.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-orban"
name: "Leonard Orban"
slug: "leonard-orban"
description: "Leonard Orban is a Romanian independent technocrat who served as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU). He was responsible for the EU language policy and was the first Romanian Commissioner and the first member of the Commission whose portfolio is exclusively multilingualism. His term of office began on 1 January 2007 and ended on 9 February 2010. With a background in engineering and economics, Orban has taken up various posts working for the accession of Romania to the European Union, most prominently as Deputy and later as Chief Negotiator for his country at the time of final negotiations with the European Union."
tagline: "Romanian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonard_Orban_2006_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.27
  momentum:             15
  historical:           15.34172133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Леонард Орбан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonard Orban"
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    title: "Leonard Orban"
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    title: "Leonard Orban"
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    title: "Leonard Orban"
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    title: "Leonard Orban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Orban"
    title: "Leonard Orban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Orban"
    title: "Leonard Orban"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Orban"
    title: "Leonard Orban"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardus_Orban"
    title: "Leonardus Orban"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump