# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dieter-dengler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:25.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dieter-dengler"
name: "Dieter Dengler"
slug: "dieter-dengler"
description: "Dieter Dengler was a German-born United States Navy aviator who was shot down over Laos and captured during the Vietnam War. After six months of imprisonment and torture, and 23 days on the run, he became only the second captured US airman to escape during the war. Of the seven prisoners of war who escaped together from the Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos, only he and Thai citizen Phisit Intharathat survived. After the war, he worked as a test pilot for private aircraft and as a commercial airline pilot."
tagline: "Vietnam War prisoner of war (1938-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dieter_Dengler_19961201.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1938-05-22"
deathDate: "2001-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.53
  momentum:             4.879989973052579
  historical:           13.054784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219048/"
    handle:    "nm0219048"
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    title: "Dieter Dengler"
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    title: "Dieter Dengler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Dengler"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dieter Dengler"
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    title: "Dieter Dengler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Dengler"
    title: "Dieter Dengler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump