# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poul-nielson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:23:42.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poul-nielson"
name: "Poul Nielson"
slug: "poul-nielson"
description: "Poul Nielson is a Danish politician from the Social Democrats who has held the posts as Energy Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, and served as European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 1999 until 2004."
tagline: "Danish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2016-08-29_BSPC_Riga_Poul_Nielson_by_Olaf_Kosinsky-13.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1943-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.09
  momentum:             15.41095890410959
  historical:           10.93606933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Nielson"
    title: "Poul Nielson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q962922"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump