# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:10:20.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-thomas"
name: "Michel Thomas"
slug: "michel-thomas"
description: "Michel Thomas was a polyglot linguist and decorated war veteran. He survived imprisonment in several Nazi concentration camps after serving in the Maquis of the French Resistance and worked with the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II. After the war, Thomas immigrated to the United States, where he developed a language-teaching system known as the \"Michel Thomas method\". In 2004, he was awarded the Silver Star by the United States Army."
tagline: "American linguist, language teacher, and résistance fighter (1914–2005)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-02-03"
deathDate: "2005-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.95
  momentum:             3.536585365853658
  historical:           13.80951466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2636185/"
    handle:    "nm2636185"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.michelthomas.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میشێل تۆماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میشل توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas_(linguiste)"
    title: "Michel Thomas (linguiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מישל תומאס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%AC_%D4%B9%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%BD"
    title: "Միշել Թոմաս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Michel Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Мишел Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://guw.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d33f4893-dffe-454d-8098-376e2a1549a3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662771"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2267002"
    title: "Thomas Michel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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