# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-portillo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:59:46.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-portillo"
name: "Michael Portillo"
slug: "michael-portillo"
description: "Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and retired politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 to 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 to 2005, holding a number of ministerial and Cabinet positions."
tagline: "British journalist, broadcaster, and former politician (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Portillo_by_Regents_College_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.michaelportillo.co.uk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump