# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-kilroy-silk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:02:18.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-kilroy-silk"
name: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
slug: "robert-kilroy-silk"
description: "Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1986. He left the House of Commons in 1986 in order to present a new BBC Television daytime talk show, Kilroy, which ran until 2004. He returned to politics, serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009. He had a significant role in the mainstreaming of Eurosceptic politics in the UK and has been dubbed 'The Godfather of Brexit'."
tagline: "British politician (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Member_of_the_European_Parliament_for_the_East_Midlands_Robert_Michael_Kilroy-Silk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.1
  momentum:             2.61179587828423
  historical:           6.804084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1090236/"
    handle:    "nm1090236"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "روبيرت كيلروى سيلك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333764"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246157"
    title: "Robert Kilroy-Silk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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