# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-tennant-cowan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:01:00.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-tennant-cowan"
name: "David Tennant Cowan"
slug: "david-tennant-cowan"
description: "Major-General David Tennant Cowan,, also known by his nickname \"Punch\", was a British army officer who served in the British Army and British Indian Army during the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 17th Indian Infantry Division during almost the whole of the Burma campaign."
tagline: "Officer in the British Army and British Indian Army"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_War_in_the_Far_East-_the_Burma_Campaign_1941-1945_IND4689.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1896-10-09"
deathDate: "1983-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             1.045197740112994
  historical:           5.480742666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "دیوید تنانت کوان"
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    title: "ديڤيد تينانت كوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant_Cowan"
    title: "David Tennant Cowan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant_Cowan"
    title: "David Tennant Cowan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant_Cowan"
    title: "David Tennant Cowan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant_Cowan"
    title: "David Tennant Cowan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5240314"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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