# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-willison
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:32:14.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-willison"
name: "David Willison"
slug: "david-willison"
description: "Lieutenant-General Sir David Willison, was a British Army officer who served with the Royal Engineers from 1939 to 1963, after which he served in a series of military intelligence roles until his retirement from the army in 1975. Willison then became Director-General of British Intelligence until 1978."
tagline: "British Army general"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1919-12-25"
deathDate: "2009-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6000000000000001
  historical:           5.468574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Willison"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Willison"
    title: "David Willison"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump