# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-adeoye-lambo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:02:01.578Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-adeoye-lambo"
name: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo"
slug: "thomas-adeoye-lambo"
description: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo is one of the thirty children of a Yoruba chief with twelve wives. He was a Nigerian scholar, administrator, global health leader and psychiatrist. He is widely recognized as the first western trained psychiatrist in Africa. Between 1971 and 1988, he worked at the World Health Organization, becoming the agency's Deputy Director General."
tagline: "Nigerian psychiatrist (1923–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Thomas_Lambo%2C_Psychiatrist_and_Deputy_Director-General_of_the_World_Health_Organisation_(WHO)_on_the_28th_of_November%2C_1997.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
birthDate: "1923-03-29"
deathDate: "2004-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             1.090909090909091
  historical:           4.408928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  185
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adeoye_Lambo"
    title: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeoye_Lambo"
    title: "Adeoye Lambo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adeoye_Lambo"
    title: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adeoye_Lambo"
    title: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adeoye_Lambo"
    title: "Thomas Adeoye Lambo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3990566"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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