# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynne-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:29:39.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynne-brown"
name: "Lynne Brown"
slug: "lynne-brown"
description: "Lynne Brown is a South African politician who is a former Minister of Public Enterprises and former Premier of the Western Cape Province. She was born in Cape Town and grew up in Mitchells Plain. She was appointed Premier of the Western Cape following the resignation of Ebrahim Rasool in July 2008. Previously, she was Minister for Economic Development and Tourism. She is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and an elected member of its National Executive Committee in 2007 and 2012. She is from a coloured background and was the fourth coloured premier of the Western Cape, the second from the ANC, and the first openly gay person to be appointed to a cabinet post in any African government."
tagline: "Politician from South Africa"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lynne-Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-09-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.51
  momentum:             1.02803738317757
  historical:           9.22124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لين براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Brown"
    title: "Lynne Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3269581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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