# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-shelton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:02:58.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-shelton"
name: "Thomas Shelton"
slug: "thomas-shelton"
description: "Thomas Shelton was a translator of Don Quixote from Spanish into English. Shelton's translation of the first part of the novel was published in London in 1612. It was the first translation of Don Quixote into any language. Shelton published his complete translation of the novel in 1620."
tagline: "English translator of Don Quixote"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1600"
deathDate: "1601"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             4.084785720299738
  historical:           5.678726666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shelton_(translator)"
    title: "Thomas Shelton (translator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توماس شيلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shelton_(%C3%9Cbersetzer)"
    title: "Thomas Shelton (Übersetzer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shelton_(traducteur)"
    title: "Thomas Shelton (traducteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shelton"
    title: "Thomas Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shelton"
    title: "Thomas Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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