# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-cleary
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:03.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-cleary"
name: "Thomas Cleary"
slug: "thomas-cleary"
description: "Thomas Francis Cleary was an American translator and author of more than 80 books related to Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Muslim classics, and of The Art of War, a treatise on management, military strategy, and statecraft. He has translated books from Pali, Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Old Irish into English. Cleary lived in Oakland, California."
tagline: "American author and translator (1949-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949"
deathDate: "2021-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             5.872130617523442
  historical:           7.23726
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "토머스 클리어리"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump