# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-drayson-baron-drayson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:32.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-drayson-baron-drayson"
name: "Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson"
slug: "paul-drayson-baron-drayson"
description: "Paul Rudd Drayson, Baron Drayson is a British businessman, amateur racing driver and Labour politician. He was Minister of Science in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills until May 2010, where he replaced Ian Pearson. In June 2009 he was additionally appointed as Minister of State for Strategic Defence Acquisition Reform at the Ministry of Defence. After losing his ministerial positions in the General Election 2010 he decided to devote himself totally towards his motorsports company Drayson Racing Technology. He is chairman and CEO of Drayson Technologies Ltd."
tagline: "British racing driver (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Rudd_Drayson_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.554069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пол Драйсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بول درايسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drayson"
    title: "Paul Drayson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drayson%2C_Baron_Drayson"
    title: "Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drayson"
    title: "Paul Drayson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Drayson"
    title: "Paul Drayson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Драйсон, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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