# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nirj-deva
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:01:05.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nirj-deva"
name: "Nirj Deva"
slug: "nirj-deva"
description: "Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva Aditya, known as Nirj Deva, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2019. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, for the seat of Brentford and Isleworth."
tagline: "British politician (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nirj_Deva_UNDP_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.821528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nirjdeva.com/"
sources:
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    title: "නිර්ජ් දේව"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "نيرج ديفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيرچ ديڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1"
    title: "ナージ・デヴァ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%84%88%EC%A7%80_%EB%8D%B0%EB%B0%94"
    title: "너지 데바"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva"
    title: "Nirj Deva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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