# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karel-doorman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:05.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karel-doorman"
name: "Karel Doorman"
slug: "karel-doorman"
description: "Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman was a Royal Netherlands Navy officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action when his flagship HNLMS De Ruyter was torpedoed during the battle, having chosen to go down with the ship."
tagline: "Dutch admiral (1889–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karel_Doorman_as_lieutenant-commander.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1889-04-23"
deathDate: "1942-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.28
  momentum:             1.404741000877963
  historical:           16.587056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קרל דורמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karel Doorman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дорман, Карел"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump