# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-heywood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:55:42.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-heywood"
name: "Neil Heywood"
slug: "neil-heywood"
description: "Neil Heywood was an English businessman. The great-grandson of John Barr Affleck, Britain's Consul General in Tianjin from 1935 to 1938, Heywood lived and worked in China from the early 1990s and became associated with the Bo Xilai family. In 2011, he was murdered by Bo's wife Gu Kailai in Chongqing after a business dispute. His death sparked a major political scandal and precipitated Bo's downfall in 2012."
tagline: "British businessman (1970-2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Neil_Heywood.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1970-10-20"
deathDate: "2011-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.74
  momentum:             2.364820846905537
  historical:           7.666112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%B5%B7%E4%BC%8D%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "尼尔·海伍德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "نيل هايوود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood"
    title: "Neil Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood"
    title: "Neil Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood"
    title: "Neil Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Heywood"
    title: "Neil Heywood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89"
    title: "ニール・ヘイウッド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84_%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%88%DA%88"
    title: "نیل ہیووڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3337821"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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