# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lauri-torni
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:11.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lauri-torni"
name: "Lauri Törni"
slug: "lauri-torni"
description: "Lauri Allan Törni, later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three countries: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the Eastern Front in World War II; and as a United States Army Major when he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War."
tagline: "Finnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army (1919-1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_Thorne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-05-28"
deathDate: "1965-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.36
  momentum:             0.6007067137809186
  historical:           21.55534133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2829258/"
    handle:    "nm2829258"
sources:
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    title: "Lauri Törni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاوري تورني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauri Törni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauri Törni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauri Törni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ラリー・ソーン"
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    title: "라우리 퇴르니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauri Törni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тёрни, Лаури"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Thorne"
    title: "Larry Thorne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q819320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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