# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-r-heath
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:55:39.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-r-heath"
name: "Donald R. Heath"
slug: "donald-r-heath"
description: "Donald Read Heath was a member of the United States Foreign Service for more than four decades including service as the Minister to Laos (1950–1954), and Ambassador to Cambodia (1950–1954), Vietnam (1952–1955), Lebanon (1955–1957) and Saudi Arabia (1958–1961). During his tenure as Ambassador to Vietnam, Heath advocated and carried out American policy under Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that helped set the stage for American military involvement."
tagline: "American diplomat (1894-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ambassador_Donald_Heath.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-08-12"
deathDate: "1981-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.28
  momentum:             13.15
  historical:           4.808028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "دونالد ر. جوستين"
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    title: "دونالد ر. جوستين"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_R._Heath"
    title: "Donald R. Heath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_R._Heath"
    title: "Donald R. Heath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_R._Heath"
    title: "Donald R. Heath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5295021"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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