# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-verges
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:48:29.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-verges"
name: "Paul Vergès"
slug: "paul-verges"
description: "Paul Vergès was a Réunionese politician. Born in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam to a French diplomat father and Vietnamese mother. Vergès founded the Communist Party of Réunion in 1960, a party which he led until he retired in 1994. He made a political comeback at the 2005 European Parliament elections, when he was elected as the third candidate on the list of the French Communist Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. Vergès sat in the European Parliament's Committee on Development."
tagline: "French politician (1925-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1925-03-05"
deathDate: "2016-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.37923866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://blog.paulverges.fr/"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "پول ڤيرجيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB_%CE%92%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B6%CE%AD"
    title: "Πολ Βερζέ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "پل ورگس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verg%C3%A8s"
    title: "Paul Vergès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verges"
    title: "Paul Verges"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Вержес, Поль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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