# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-chapple
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:02.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-chapple"
name: "John Chapple"
slug: "john-chapple"
description: "Field Marshal Sir John Lyon Chapple, was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS), the professional head of the British Army, from 1988 to 1992. Early in his military career he saw action during the Malayan Emergency and again during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and later in his career he provided advice to the British government during the Gulf War."
tagline: "Army officer (1931–2022)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/John_Chapple.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1931-05-27"
deathDate: "2022-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.83
  momentum:             0.1043024771838331
  historical:           7.4279
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chapple_(British_Army_officer)"
    title: "John Chapple (British Army officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84"
    title: "جون تشابل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chapple"
    title: "John Chapple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chapple_(British_Army_officer)"
    title: "John Chapple (British Army officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84"
    title: "جان لیون چاپل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chapple"
    title: "John Chapple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chapple"
    title: "John Chapple"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BF%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Чаппл, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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