# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-hanna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:38:22.216Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-hanna"
name: "Thomas Hanna"
slug: "thomas-hanna"
description: "Thomas Louis Hanna was a philosophy professor and movement theorist who coined the term somatics in 1976. He called his work Hanna Somatic Education.\nHe proposed that most negative health effects are due to what he called Sensory Motor Amnesia. He claimed that many common age-related ailments are not simply a matter of time but the result of poor movement habits."
tagline: "Philosopher and movement theorist (1928-1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-11-21"
deathDate: "1990-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.699858666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Louis_Hanna"
    title: "Thomas Louis Hanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "توماس لويس حنا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توماس لويس حنا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Томас Ханна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Louis_Hanna"
    title: "Thomas Louis Hanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Ханна, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4495505"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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