# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maris-gailis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:51:57.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maris-gailis"
name: "Māris Gailis"
slug: "maris-gailis"
description: "Māris Gailis is a Latvian businessman and former politician. He is the former prime minister of Latvia, an office he held from September 1994 to December 1995. In the government of the Prime Minister Valdis Birkavs, Gailis became a Minister of State Reform; in the government of the Prime Minister Andris Šķēle, he was the Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development. As a member of the right-wing liberal political party Latvian Way, he was elected in the 5th Saeima and 6th Saeima. He led a round-the-globe expedition on the yacht Milda from 2001 to 2003."
tagline: "Latvian politician (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M%C4%81ris_Gailis_2011-08-20.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1951-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.16666666666667
  historical:           14.94056933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Маріс Гайліс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريس جايليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Марыс Гайліс"
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    title: "Марыс Гайліс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماریس گایلیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Gailis"
    title: "Māris Gailis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Гайлис, Марис"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump