# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katharine-gun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:34:14.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katharine-gun"
name: "Katharine Gun"
slug: "katharine-gun"
description: "Katharine Teresa Gun is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to a friend who passed it to The Observer. The information concerned a request from the United States for compromising intelligence on diplomats from member states of the 2003 United Nations Security Council, who were due to vote on a second UN resolution on the prospective 2003 invasion of Iraq."
tagline: "Translator and whistle-blower"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.691637492075251
  historical:           17.72113066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump