# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-o-higgins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:06:29.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-o-higgins"
name: "Tom O'Higgins"
slug: "tom-o-higgins"
description: "Thomas Francis O'Higgins was an Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland and a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1974 to 1985, a Judge of the European Court of Justice from 1985 to 1991, a Judge of the High Court from 1973 to 1974, Deputy leader of Fine Gael from 1972 to 1977 and Minister for Health from 1954 to 1957. He also served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1948 to 1969."
tagline: "Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge (1916-2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Tom_O%27Higgins.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1916-07-23"
deathDate: "2003-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             1.225490196078431
  historical:           6.349821333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_O'Higgins"
    title: "Thomas Francis O'Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "توم هيجينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B6%D9%89)"
    title: "توم هيجينز (قاضى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._O%E2%80%99Higgins_junior"
    title: "Thomas F. O’Higgins junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_O'Higgins"
    title: "Tom O'Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_O'Higgins"
    title: "Tom O'Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_O'Higgins"
    title: "Tom O'Higgins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1770312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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