# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-whitelaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:31.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-whitelaw"
name: "Willie Whitelaw"
slug: "willie-whitelaw"
description: "William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988. He was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1991."
tagline: "British politician (1918–1999)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/William_Whitelaw_in_1963.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-06-28"
deathDate: "1999-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.25354266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Whitelaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitelaw_(1er_vicomte_Whitelaw)"
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    title: "William Whitelaw"
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    title: "William Stephen Whitelaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Willie Whitelaw"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stephen_Ian_Whitelaw"
    title: "William Stephen Ian Whitelaw"
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    title: "William Whitelaw"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Уайтлоу, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump