# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-rodgers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:47:04.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-rodgers"
name: "William Rodgers"
slug: "william-rodgers"
description: "William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, is a British politician and life peer. As a Labour Party member of Parliament, he served as Secretary of State for Transport from 1976 to 1979, and was one of the \"Gang of Four\" of senior Labour politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He subsequently helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the Liberal Democrats in 1988, and later served as the party's leader in the House of Lords between 1997 and 2001."
tagline: "British politician (born 1928)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Rodgers_of_Quarry_Bank_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1928-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.257564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers%2C_Baron_Rodgers_of_Quarry_Bank"
    title: "Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام رودجيرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers_(Politiker)"
    title: "Bill Rodgers (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers%2C_Baron_Rodgers_of_Quarry_Bank"
    title: "Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers_(pol%C3%ADtico)"
    title: "Bill Rodgers (político)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers_(homme_politique)"
    title: "Bill Rodgers (homme politique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA_(%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%81%AE%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "ウィリアム・ロジャーズ (イギリスの政治家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rodgers"
    title: "Bill Rodgers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333259"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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