# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-farran
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:32.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-farran"
name: "Roy Farran"
slug: "roy-farran"
description: "Major Roy Alexander Farran, also known as Paddy McGinty, was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was highly decorated for his exploits with the Special Air Service (SAS) during the Second World War. Farran became widely known after his court-martial on a charge of beating an unarmed 17-year-old member of the Jewish underground militant group Lehi to death during his command of an undercover Palestine Police special squad. After his brother was killed in a revenge attack, Farran emigrated to Canada where he forged a successful business and political career, holding a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed during that period."
tagline: "British-Canadian politician and soldier (1921-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fildes-Roy_Farran.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1921-01-02"
deathDate: "2006-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             0.3127171646977067
  historical:           4.853424
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "روى فاران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Farran"
    title: "Roy Farran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Farran"
    title: "Roy Farran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9F"
    title: "רוי פאראן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Фарран, Рой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2904005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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