# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-k-e-bruce
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:25:55.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-k-e-bruce"
name: "David K. E. Bruce"
slug: "david-k-e-bruce"
description: "David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce was an American diplomat, intelligence officer and politician. During World War II, he was considered one of the three most strategically important intelligence officers at the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), with tens of thousands of personnel under his command, and the lives of secretly-deployed spies and special operators operating behind enemy lines under his direct supervision. After the war, he served as ambassador to France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom and later was the first U.S. emissary to the People's Republic of China."
tagline: "American diplomat, intelligence officer, head of Office of Strategic Services in Europe (1898-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_K._E._Bruce.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1898-02-12"
deathDate: "1977-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             2.869565217391304
  historical:           7.458392
  currentAttention:     15.94202898550724
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E7%BB%B4%C2%B7K%C2%B7E%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E9%B2%81%E6%96%AF"
    title: "戴维·K·E·布鲁斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد ك. إي. بروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد ك. اى. بروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K._E._Bruce"
    title: "David K. E. Bruce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K._E._Bruce"
    title: "David K. E. Bruce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K._E._Bruce"
    title: "David K. E. Bruce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bruce_(diplomaat)"
    title: "David Bruce (diplomaat)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K.E._Bruce"
    title: "David K.E. Bruce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325810"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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