# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-pienaar
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:29:07.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-pienaar"
name: "Louis Pienaar"
slug: "louis-pienaar"
description: "Louis Alexander Pienaar was a South African lawyer and diplomat. He was the last white Administrator of South-West Africa, from 1985 through Namibian independence in 1990. Pienaar later served as a minister in F W de Klerk's government until 1993. He married Isabel Maud van Niekerk on 11 December 1954."
tagline: "South African lawyer, diplomat (1926-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Louis_Pienaar.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1926-06-26"
deathDate: "2012-11-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             0.2989392478302797
  historical:           6.571781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Пиенар, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pienaar"
    title: "Louis Pienaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "لويس بينار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pienaar"
    title: "Louis Pienaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pienaar"
    title: "Louis Pienaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pienaar"
    title: "Louis Pienaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pienaar"
    title: "Louis Pienaar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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