# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:39:47.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-wright"
name: "Thomas Wright"
slug: "thomas-wright"
description: "Thomas Wright was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulæ were distant galaxies."
tagline: "Astronomer (1711-1786)"
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birthDate: "1711-09-22"
deathDate: "1786-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump