# Dilly Knox

> Alfred Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox, CMG was an English classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War. He then joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS).

*British cryptographer (1884-1943)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/dilly-knox

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1884-07-23
- **Died:** 1943-02-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 51.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 8.9 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 10.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 44.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Dillwyn Knox](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillwyn_Knox)
- [ديلي نوكس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3)
- [الفرد نوكس (لغوى)](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%86%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%89))
- [Dillwyn Knox](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillwyn_Knox)
- [Dilly Knox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilly_Knox)
- [دیلی ناکس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%86%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3)
- [Dilly Knox](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilly_Knox)
- [דילי נוקס](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1)
- [Alfred Dillwyn Knox](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dillwyn_Knox)
- [Dillwyn Knox](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillwyn_Knox)
- [Dilly Knox](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilly_Knox)
- [Нокс, Дилли](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318252)

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