# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-wayles
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:38:47.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-wayles"
name: "John Wayles"
slug: "john-wayles"
description: "John Wayles was a colonial American planter, slave trader and lawyer in colonial Virginia. He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Wayles married three times, with these marriages producing eleven children; only five of them lived to adulthood. \nThrough his slave Betty Hemings, Wayles fathered six additional children, including Sally Hemings, who was the mother of six children by Thomas Jefferson and half-sister of Martha Jefferson."
tagline: "American lawyer and planter (1715-1773)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1715-01-31"
deathDate: "1773-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.39
  momentum:             10
  historical:           2.368012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جون وايليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayles"
    title: "John Wayles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16859631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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