# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richie-farmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:39:18.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richie-farmer"
name: "Richie Farmer"
slug: "richie-farmer"
description: "Richard Dwight Farmer Jr. is an American former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 2004 to 2012 and was the running mate of David L. Williams in the 2011 gubernatorial election. After leaving office, Farmer was investigated for violating state campaign finance laws and misappropriating state resources and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison along with a concurrent 12 months in state prison."
tagline: "American politician and basketball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1969-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             1.334187770908051
  historical:           5.302234666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "ریچی فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشي فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشى فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "رچی فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Farmer"
    title: "Richie Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "ریچی فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7330495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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