# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lochhead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:39:11.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lochhead"
name: "Richard Lochhead"
slug: "richard-lochhead"
description: "Richard Neilson Lochhead is a Scottish politician and former Scottish Government minister. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP) he served as the Minister for Business and Employment between 2023 and 2026, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and Environment from 2007 to 2016, and a number of other junior ministerial posts."
tagline: "Scottish politician (born 1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Lochhead_2025_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1969-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.420916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RichardLochhead"
    handle:    "RichardLochhead"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardlochhead.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lochhead"
    title: "Richard Lochhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lochhead"
    title: "Richard Lochhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridseard_Lochhead"
    title: "Ridseard Lochhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lochhead"
    title: "Richard Lochhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A9_%DB%81%DB%8C%DA%88"
    title: "رچرڈ لوک ہیڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1490268"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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