# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-d-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:01.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-d-taylor"
name: "Kenneth D. Taylor"
slug: "kenneth-d-taylor"
description: "Kenneth Douglas Taylor was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the \"Canadian Caper\" when he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran. With the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by procuring Canadian passports for the Americans to deceive the Iranian Revolutionary guard by posing as a Canadian film crew scouting locations. Before the escape, the six Americans spent several weeks hiding in the homes of Taylor and another Canadian diplomat, John Sheardown."
tagline: "Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman (1934-2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Kenneth_D._Taylor.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-10-05"
deathDate: "2015-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.41
  momentum:             2.779537149817296
  historical:           8.055522666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e9f273b0-38f6-4b87-9aab-255982614f42"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كينيث د. تايلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Douglas_Taylor"
    title: "Kenneth Douglas Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_D._Taylor"
    title: "Kenneth D. Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "کن تیلور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Douglas_Taylor"
    title: "Kenneth Douglas Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_D._Taylor"
    title: "Kenneth D. Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Кеннет Тейлор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%DA%BE_%DA%88%DB%8C_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "کینتھ ڈی ٹیلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2373760"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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