# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-mboya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:54:23.524Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-mboya"
name: "Tom Mboya"
slug: "tom-mboya"
description: "Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya was a Kenyan politician and labour leader. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. He led the negotiations for independence at the Lancaster House Conferences and was instrumental in the formation of Kenya's independence party – the Kenya African National Union (KANU) – where he served as its first Secretary-General. He laid the foundation for Kenya's capitalist and mixed economy policies at the height of the Cold War and set up several of the country's key labour institutions. Mboya was Minister for Economic Planning and Development when he was assassinated."
tagline: "Kenyan politician and independence activist (1930–1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Mboya_1962_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1930-08-15"
deathDate: "1969-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.104652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%B0_%EC%9D%8C%EB%B3%B4%EC%95%BC"
    title: "톰 음보야"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joseph_Mboya"
    title: "Thomas Joseph Mboya"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mboya"
    title: "Tom Mboya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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    title: "Tom Mboya"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump