# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dilly-knox
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:32.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dilly-knox"
name: "Dilly Knox"
slug: "dilly-knox"
description: "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)."
tagline: "British cryptographer (1884-1943)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-07-23"
deathDate: "1943-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.926191627032019
  historical:           10.78042666666667
  currentAttention:     44.89995119570522
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Dillwyn Knox"
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    title: "Dillwyn Knox"
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    title: "Dilly Knox"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilly_Knox"
    title: "Dilly Knox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "דילי נוקס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alfred Dillwyn Knox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dillwyn Knox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dilly Knox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Нокс, Дилли"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump