# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilfried-vandaele
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:30:21.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilfried-vandaele"
name: "Wilfried Vandaele"
slug: "wilfried-vandaele"
description: "Wilfried Vandaele is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He has been a member of the Flemish Parliament since 2009 and has served as its speaker between 13 July and 2 October 2019. He is also the current mayor of his home town De Haan."
tagline: "Flemish politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilfried_Vandaele_-_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-06-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.69
  momentum:             5.000000000000001
  historical:           4.807776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/WilfriedVdaele"
    handle:    "WilfriedVdaele"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/wilfried.vandaele.7"
    handle:    "wilfried.vandaele.7"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilfried-vandaele-71180126/"
    handle:    "wilfried-vandaele-71180126"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.wilfriedvandaele.be/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Vandaele"
    title: "Wilfried Vandaele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Vandaele"
    title: "Wilfried Vandaele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Vandaele"
    title: "Wilfried Vandaele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Vandaele"
    title: "Wilfried Vandaele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Vandaele"
    title: "Wilfried Vandaele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3289954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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