# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-balfe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:02:21.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-balfe"
name: "Richard Balfe"
slug: "richard-balfe"
description: "Richard Andrew Balfe, Baron Balfe is a British politician and life peer. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 but joined the Conservative Party in 2002, before standing down in 2004."
tagline: "British politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Balfe_crop_2.1%2C_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-05-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476926666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81"
    title: "ريتشارد بالف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Balfe"
    title: "Richard Balfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Balfe"
    title: "Richard Balfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Balfe"
    title: "Richard Balfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Balfe"
    title: "Richard Balfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Balfe"
    title: "Richard Balfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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