# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:15:44.869Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-thomas"
name: "Gordon Thomas"
slug: "gordon-thomas"
description: "Gordon Thomas was a British investigative journalist and author, notably on topics of secret intelligence. Thomas was the author of 53 books published worldwide including The Pope's Jews, Secret Wars, and Gideon's Spies, with sales exceeding 45 million copies. Thomas got the scoop on the nationalisation of the Suez Canal for the Daily Express in 1956. He was a cousin of the poet Dylan Thomas."
tagline: "British author (1933–2017)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Gordon_Thomas_%28author%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1933-02-21"
deathDate: "2017-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.46
  momentum:             9.582089552238806
  historical:           9.256052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858883/"
    handle:    "nm0858883"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جوردون توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Гордън Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gordon Thomas (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Thomas_(author)"
    title: "Gordon Thomas (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Thomas"
    title: "Gordon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Thomas"
    title: "Gordon Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Thomas_(auteur)"
    title: "Gordon Thomas (auteur)"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2293838"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1613346"
    title: "Gordon Thomas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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