# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-deech-baroness-deech
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:09.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-deech-baroness-deech"
name: "Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech"
slug: "ruth-deech-baroness-deech"
description: "Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE is a British academic, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002, and as the former Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords (2005–) and chaired the Bar Standards Board (2009–2014)."
tagline: "British academic, lawyer and bioethicist (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Deech_crop_2%2C_2022.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-04-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             0.1642335766423358
  historical:           4.620052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روث ديتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Deech%2C_Baroness_Deech"
    title: "Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Deech%2C_Baroness_Deech"
    title: "Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Deech"
    title: "Ruth Deech"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Deech%2C_Baroness_Deech"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187562"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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