# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-maurice-bigeard
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:20:52.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-maurice-bigeard"
name: "Marcel Maurice Bigeard"
slug: "marcel-maurice-bigeard"
description: "Marcel Bigeard, personal radio call-sign \"Bruno\", was a French military officer and politician who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. He was one of the commanders in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and is thought by many to have been a dominating influence on French \"unconventional\" warfare thinking from that time onwards. He was one of the most decorated officers in France, and is particularly noteworthy because of his rise from being a regular soldier in 1936 to ultimately concluding his career in 1976 as a Lieutenant General and serving in the government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing."
tagline: "French soldier (1916-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General_Marcel_Bigeard%2C_80%2C_October_1996%2C_before_photo_of_him_40_years_ago.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1916-02-14"
deathDate: "2010-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15.59464985517124
  historical:           13.78102933333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump