# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/llewellyn-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:04:05.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/llewellyn-thompson"
name: "Llewellyn Thompson"
slug: "llewellyn-thompson"
description: "Llewellyn E. \"Tommy\" Thompson Jr. was an American diplomat. He served in Sri Lanka, Austria, and for a lengthy period in the Soviet Union, where his tenure saw some of the most significant events of the Cold War. He was a key advisor to President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A 2019 assessment described him as \"arguably the most influential figure who ever advised U.S. presidents about policy toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War.\""
tagline: "American diplomat (1904–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wfm_us_embassy_llewellyn_thompson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-08-24"
deathDate: "1972-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.089562666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860425/"
    handle:    "nm0860425"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump