# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-aguiyi-ironsi
# Generated: 2026-08-20T23:16:50.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-aguiyi-ironsi"
name: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
slug: "thomas-aguiyi-ironsi"
description: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi is a Nigerian career diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of State for Defence and later as Minister of Defence under President Olusegun Obasanjo from 2006 to 2007, becoming the first person of Igbo extraction to hold the defence portfolio in more than four decades. He is the eldest son of Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military Head of State."
tagline: "Nigerian politician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           47.77
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.917570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    title: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    title: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomaas_Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    title: "Tomaas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "تھامس اگوئی ایرونسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    title: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://igl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    title: "Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7786963"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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