# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-callanan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:28:32.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-callanan"
name: "Martin Callanan"
slug: "martin-callanan"
description: "Martin John Callanan, Baron Callanan is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East England from 1999 to 2014 and Chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group from 2011 to 2014. Callanan failed his bid to win re-election in the 2014 European Parliament elections, becoming the first sitting chairman of a European parliamentary group to lose his seat. On 8 August 2014, it was announced that he would be made a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords."
tagline: "British politician (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Callanan_crop_2%2C_2026.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9963099630996309
  historical:           10.74406133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Martin Callanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Callanan%2C_Baron_Callanan"
    title: "Martin Callanan, Baron Callanan"
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    title: "Martin Callanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Martin Callanan"
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    title: "Մարտին Կալանան"
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    title: "Martin Callanan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump