# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toby-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:29:25.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toby-young"
name: "Toby Young"
slug: "toby-young"
description: "Toby Daniel Moorsom Young, Baron Young of Acton, is a British social commentator and Conservative life peer. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator, creator of The Daily Sceptic blog and a former associate editor at Quillette."
tagline: "British journalist (born 1963)"
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1732322"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Toby Young"
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    title: "Toby Young"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump