# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-arkless
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:06:31.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-arkless"
name: "Richard Arkless"
slug: "richard-arkless"
description: "Richard Lambert Thomas Arkless is a Scottish National Party politician, who was elected as MP for Dumfries and Galloway at the 2015 UK general election. He lost his seat at the following election in 2017."
tagline: "Scottish politician (born 1975)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1975-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.35
  momentum:             1.184210526315789
  historical:           6.142513333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ArklessRichard"
    handle:    "ArklessRichard"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/RichardArklessSNP"
    handle:    "RichardArklessSNP"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8C%E5%AF%9F%C2%B7%E4%BA%9E%E5%85%8B%E5%8A%9B%E6%96%AF"
    title: "里察·亞克力斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ريتشارد اركليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkless"
    title: "Richard Arkless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkless"
    title: "Richard Arkless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkless"
    title: "Richard Arkless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkless"
    title: "Richard Arkless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkless"
    title: "Richard Arkless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19882263"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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