# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-dill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:13:12.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-dill"
name: "John Dill"
slug: "john-dill"
description: "Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First World War and the Second World War. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently served in Washington, D.C., as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission and then Senior British Representative on the Combined Chiefs of Staff."
tagline: "Army officer (1881–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_British_Army_in_North_Africa%2C_1941_E2384E.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1881-12-25"
deathDate: "1944-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.24691333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Dill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump