# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-niles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:34:45.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-niles"
name: "Thomas Niles"
slug: "thomas-niles"
description: "Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles was an American diplomat who served as a career Foreign Service Officer and United States Ambassador to Canada (1985–89), the European Union (1989–91), and Greece (1993–97). He later served as President and Vice Chairman of the United States Council for International Business and was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Kentucky. Niles joined the Foreign Service in 1962. His father was the American composer John Jacob Niles. He died from cancer in Stamford, on April 30, 2025, at the age of 85."
tagline: "American diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_M_T_Niles_(page_9_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-09-22"
deathDate: "2025-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.21
  momentum:             0.5185185185185185
  historical:           2.405112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "طوماس نايلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._T._Niles"
    title: "Thomas M. T. Niles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7792751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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