# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-braden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:47.108Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-braden"
name: "Thomas Braden"
slug: "thomas-braden"
description: "Thomas Wardell Braden was an American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, journalist – best remembered as the author of Eight Is Enough, which spawned a television program – and co-host of the CNN show Crossfire."
tagline: "American journalist (1917–2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Thomas_Braden.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1917-02-22"
deathDate: "2009-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.390249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102969/"
    handle:    "nm0102969"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Braden"
    title: "Thomas Braden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%86"
    title: "توماس بريدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس بريدن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Braden"
    title: "Tom Braden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Braden"
    title: "Tom Braden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Braden"
    title: "Thomas Braden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456409"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1239726"
    title: "Thomas Braden"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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