# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-griffiths-wainewright
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:56:07.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-griffiths-wainewright"
name: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
slug: "thomas-griffiths-wainewright"
description: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was an English artist, author and suspected serial killer. He gained a reputation as a profligate and a dandy, and in 1837, was transported to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for frauds on the Bank of England. As a convict he became a portraitist for Hobart's elite."
tagline: "English artist and serial killer (1794-1847)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1794"
deathDate: "1847-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.351333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AB%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA"
    title: "توماس جريفيثس واينيوريجت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright"
    title: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright"
    title: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright"
    title: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright"
    title: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright"
    title: "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2424344"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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