# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-maclean-q523120
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:09:41.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-maclean-q523120"
name: "Donald Maclean"
slug: "donald-maclean-q523120"
description: "Donald Duart Maclean was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent who participated in the Cambridge Five spy ring. After being recruited by a Soviet agent as an undergraduate student, Maclean entered the civil service. In 1938, he was appointed as Third Secretary at the British embassy in Paris. He served in London and Washington, D.C., achieving promotion to First Secretary. He was subsequently posted to Egypt, and then was appointed head of the American Department in the Foreign Office."
tagline: "British diplomat and spy (1913–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Duart_Maclean.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1913-05-25"
deathDate: "1983-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump