# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-wise
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:05.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-wise"
name: "Tom Wise"
slug: "tom-wise"
description: "Thomas Harold Wise is a former Independent and UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England. A former police officer, he was elected in 2004 as a member of the UK Independence Party but later had the whip suspended when allegations of misuse of parliamentary expenses surfaced in The Sunday Telegraph. Following an inquiry carried out by the European Anti-Fraud Office, Wise was formally charged with false accounting and money laundering by Bedfordshire Police. After initially pleading not guilty, he admitted the charges and was sentenced in November 2009 at Southwark Crown Court to a two-year term of imprisonment. He is thought to be the first MEP to be jailed for expenses fraud. Sentencing him, the judge said that Wise had engaged in \"deliberate and blatant dishonesty\" and had set about to defraud the European Parliament almost as soon as he was elected."
tagline: "British politician (born 1948)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Tom_Wise_MEP.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.11
  momentum:             2.387096774193548
  historical:           6.140245333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tom Wise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "توم وايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "توم وايز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wise"
    title: "Tom Wise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wise_(politician)"
    title: "Tom Wise (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wise_(%C9%97an_siyasa)"
    title: "Tom Wise (ɗan siyasa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wise"
    title: "Tom Wise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7818093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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