# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-flynn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:49:44.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-flynn"
name: "Paul Flynn"
slug: "paul-flynn"
description: "Paul Philip Flynn was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport West from the 1987 general election until his death in 2019. He briefly served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in 2016, becoming the oldest MP to hold a shadow cabinet position, aged 81."
tagline: "Welsh politician and MP (1935-2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Paul_Flynn_MP.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1935-02-09"
deathDate: "2019-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           6.819512
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "Paulflynnmp"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PaulFlynn2017"
    handle:    "PaulFlynn2017"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.paulflynnmp.co.uk/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "باول فلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flynn"
    title: "Paul Flynn"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flynn_(British_politician)"
    title: "Paul Flynn (British politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flynn_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Paul Flynn (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flynn_(politician)"
    title: "Paul Flynn (politician)"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Flynn_(siyaset%C3%A7i)"
    title: "Paul Flynn (siyasetçi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump