# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-wotton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:37:53.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-wotton"
name: "Henry Wotton"
slug: "henry-wotton"
description: "Sir Henry Wotton was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg in 1604, he famously said \"An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country\"."
tagline: "English writer, poet, politician and ambassador (1568-1639)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1568-03-30"
deathDate: "1639"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Уоттон, Генри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump