# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/digby-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:58:38.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/digby-smith"
name: "Digby Smith"
slug: "digby-smith"
description: "Digby George Smith, who also used the pseudonym Otto von Pivka, was a British military historian. The son of a British career soldier, he was born in Hampshire, England, but spent several years in India and Pakistan as a child and youth. As a \"boy soldier\", he entered training in the British Army at the age of 16. He was later commissioned in the Royal Corps of Signals, and held several postings with the British Army of the Rhine."
tagline: "British historian (1935–2024)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-01-01"
deathDate: "2024-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.541433333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1653434/"
    handle:    "nm1653434"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Смит, Дигби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "ديغبي سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Smith"
    title: "Digby Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Smith"
    title: "Digby Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Smith"
    title: "Digby Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Smith"
    title: "Digby Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1224591"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2977743"
    title: "Digby Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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