# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-coles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:00.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-coles"
name: "Richard Coles"
slug: "richard-coles"
description: "Richard Keith Robert Coles is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. After playing in the 1980s band Bronski Beat, he came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the band the Communards. They achieved three UK top-10 hits, including the No. 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a cover version of \"Don't Leave Me This Way\"."
tagline: "British musician, writer, presenter and priest (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Coles_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.05669733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1537217/"
    handle:    "nm1537217"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.richardcoles.com"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coles"
    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coles"
    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coles"
    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
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    title: "Richard Coles"
    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