# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-king
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:19:21.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-king"
name: "Thomas King"
slug: "thomas-king"
description: "Thomas King is an American-born Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations. Though he previously said that he was of partial Cherokee descent, King accepted findings by genealogists in 2025 that he has no Indigenous ancestry."
tagline: "Canadian writer, presenter, academic, and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_King.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.05
  momentum:             6.358695652173911
  historical:           11.102024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1002565/"
    handle:    "nm1002565"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b9454bda-1066-4409-9b83-b35e935c84e1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "توماس كينغ (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "توماس كينج (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King"
    title: "Thomas King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "تۆماس کینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King"
    title: "Thomas King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King"
    title: "Thomas King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King_(novelist)"
    title: "Thomas King (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King"
    title: "Thomas King"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "توماس کینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_King_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Thomas King (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF_(%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "تھامس کنگ (ناول نگار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_King_(scrittore)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712555"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/135326"
    title: "Thomas King"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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