# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:47.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-ryan"
name: "Scott Ryan"
slug: "scott-ryan"
description: "Scott Michael Ryan is a former Australian politician and diplomat. He was a Senator for Victoria from 2008 to 2021, representing the Liberal Party of Australia. He was a minister in the Turnbull government from 2016 to 2017 and later served as President of the Senate from 2017 to 2021. He resigned from the Senate to become high commissioner of Australia to Canada, serving from 2021 to 2024. He accepted an appointment as national executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission and took up the appointment on 19 January 2026."
tagline: "Australian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_Ryan_April_2018_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1973-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.75
  momentum:             2.264150943396226
  historical:           7.217964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SenatorRyan"
    handle:    "SenatorRyan"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://scottryan.com.au"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AF%E7%A7%91%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E7%91%9E%E5%AE%89"
    title: "斯科特·瑞安"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سكوت ريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ryan_(Australian_politician)"
    title: "Scott Ryan (Australian politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ryan"
    title: "Scott Ryan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Райан, Скотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ryan_(Australian_politician)"
    title: "Scott Ryan (Australian politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%B9_%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%A2%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "سکاٹ ریان (آسٹریلیائی سیاست دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ryan_(ch%C3%ADnh_kh%C3%A1ch_%C3%9Ac)"
    title: "Scott Ryan (chính khách Úc)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7437180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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