# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cairncross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:15:38.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cairncross"
name: "John Cairncross"
slug: "john-cairncross"
description: "John Cairncross was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that may have influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. He was also notable as a translator, literary scholar and writer of non-fiction."
tagline: "British intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union (1913-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/John_Cairncross.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-07-25"
deathDate: "1995-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.81
  momentum:             3.218926553672317
  historical:           17.273848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Cairncross"
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    title: "존 케언크로스"
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    title: "John Cairncross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump