# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alastair-denniston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:31:32.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alastair-denniston"
name: "Alastair Denniston"
slug: "alastair-denniston"
description: "Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston was a Scottish codebreaker, deputy head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) and hockey player. Denniston was appointed operational head of GC&CS in 1919 and remained so until February 1942."
tagline: "British cryptographer and Royal Navy Commander (1881-1961)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Alastair_Denniston.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1881-12-01"
deathDate: "1961-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             14.81622160328419
  historical:           9.537376
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alastair Denniston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump