# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:23:02.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-wilson"
name: "Thomas Wilson"
slug: "thomas-wilson"
description: "Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), which have been called \"the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in English\"."
tagline: "English diplomat, judge, and privy councillor in the government of Elizabeth I (1524-1581)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AmbassadorThomasWilson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1524"
deathDate: "1581"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.03
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           5.476962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson"
    title: "Thomas Wilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(Rhetoriker)"
    title: "Thomas Wilson (Rhetoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(rhetorician)"
    title: "Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(retoricus)"
    title: "Thomas Wilson (retoricus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(rhetorician)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2336478"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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