# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-howitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:55:07.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-howitt"
name: "Richard Howitt"
slug: "richard-howitt"
description: "Richard Stuart Howitt is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1994 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party, he has represented Petersfield on the Cambridgeshire County Council since 2021."
tagline: "British politician (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Howitt%2C_2016_Labour_Party_Conference_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.337833333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardhowittmep.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Richard Howitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد هويت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt"
    title: "Richard Howitt"
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    title: "Richard Howitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt_(Politiker)"
    title: "Richard Howitt (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt_(politician)"
    title: "Richard Howitt (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Richard Howitt (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt_(dan_siyasa)"
    title: "Richard Howitt (dan siyasa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt"
    title: "Richard Howitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Howitt"
    title: "Richard Howitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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