# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-finlay
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:14:27.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-finlay"
name: "Thomas Finlay"
slug: "thomas-finlay"
description: "Thomas Aloysius Finlay was an Irish judge, politician and barrister who served as Chief Justice of Ireland and a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1985 to 1994, President of the High Court from 1974 to 1985 and a Judge of the High Court from 1971 to 1985. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1954 to 1957."
tagline: "Irish politician and judge (1922–2017)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1922-09-17"
deathDate: "2017-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             2.777777777777778
  historical:           5.274910666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Finlay_(judge)"
    title: "Thomas Finlay (judge)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "توماس فينلاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Finlay_(Politiker%2C_1922)"
    title: "Thomas Finlay (Politiker, 1922)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%98%E9%A9%AC%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%8A%AC%E5%88%A9_(%E6%B3%95%E5%AE%98)"
    title: "托马斯·芬利 (法官)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Finlay"
    title: "Thomas Finlay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Finlay_(judge)"
    title: "Thomas Finlay (judge)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2423865"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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