# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oswald-pirow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:24.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oswald-pirow"
name: "Oswald Pirow"
slug: "oswald-pirow"
description: "Oswald Pirow, QC was a South African lawyer and far-right politician who held office as minister of justice, and later minister of defence for the National and United Party, respectively. Pirow eventually left the UP upon the Second World War and joined Daniel Malan's reunited National Party, but eventually broke when Pirow founded the New Order of South Africa, a marginal fascist group that disbanded before the end of the war. A celebrated jurist, including by future President Nelson Mandela, he served the NP government as a prosecutor in the Treason Trial until his death."
tagline: "South African far-right politician (1890–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oswald_Pirow.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1890-08-14"
deathDate: "1959-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             0.6260032102728733
  historical:           9.623832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "اوسوالد پيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Pirow"
    title: "Oswald Pirow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086147"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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