# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ashcroft
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:46:28.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ashcroft"
name: "Michael Ashcroft"
slug: "michael-ashcroft"
description: "Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a British-Belizean businessman, pollster and politician. He is a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Ashcroft founded Michael A. Ashcroft Associates in 1972 and was the 132nd richest person in the UK, as ranked by the Sunday Times Rich List 2021, with an estimated fortune of £1.257 billion."
tagline: "British politician (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lord_Ashcroft_presents_Zulu_at_the_Policy_Exchange-Crossbench_Film_Society_cropped.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.49
  momentum:             6.933418693982076
  historical:           6.594945333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LordAshcroft"
    handle:    "LordAshcroft"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://lordashcroftpolls.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA"
    title: "مايكل اشكروفت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft"
    title: "Michael Ashcroft"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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