# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-polk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:09.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-polk"
name: "George Polk"
slug: "george-polk"
description: "George Washington Polk Jr. was an American journalist for CBS who was murdered during the Greek Civil War in 1948."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lt._George_W._Polk%2C_USNR%2C_c1943.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1913-10-17"
deathDate: "1948-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.15741733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11586120/"
    handle:    "nm11586120"
sources:
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    title: "Полк, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "جورج بولك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "جورج بولك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk"
    title: "George Polk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A5%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BA"
    title: "Υπόθεση Πολκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk"
    title: "George Polk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk"
    title: "George Polk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%DA%A9"
    title: "جورج پولک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk"
    title: "George Polk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%BB_%D5%93%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AF"
    title: "Ջորջ Փոլկ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ジョージ・ポーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk"
    title: "George Polk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5131219"
    title: "George Polkosnik"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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