# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-aikenhead
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:11:46.564Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-aikenhead"
name: "Thomas Aikenhead"
slug: "thomas-aikenhead"
description: "Thomas Aikenhead was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20, on a charge of blasphemy under the Blasphemy Act 1661 and Blasphemy Act 1695. He was the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. His execution occurred 85 years after the death of Edward Wightman (1612), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England."
tagline: "Scottish student, last person in Britain executed for blasphemy"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1676"
deathDate: "1697-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.30651866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "توماس ايكينهياد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aikenhead"
    title: "Thomas Aikenhead"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365046"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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