# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-dawson-dewhirst
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:11:31.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-dawson-dewhirst"
name: "John Dawson Dewhirst"
slug: "john-dawson-dewhirst"
description: "John Dawson Dewhirst was a British teacher and amateur yachtsman who was one of nine westerners, and two Britons, known to have been killed by the Khmer Rouge during the rule of Pol Pot."
tagline: "Executed British adventurer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1952"
deathDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.04
  momentum:             0.7992565055762082
  historical:           5.929414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawson_Dewhirst"
    title: "John Dawson Dewhirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawson_Dewhirst"
    title: "John Dawson Dewhirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawson_Dewhirst"
    title: "John Dawson Dewhirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E7%BB%B4%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9"
    title: "约翰·德维斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Дьюирст, Джон Доусон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawson_Dewhirst"
    title: "John Dawson Dewhirst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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