# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-david-jackson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:50:02.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-david-jackson"
name: "Michael David Jackson"
slug: "michael-david-jackson"
description: "General Sir Michael David Jackson was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970, with which he served two of his three tours of duty in Northern Ireland. On his first, he was present as an adjutant at the events of the Ballymurphy massacre (1971), where eleven unarmed civilians were shot dead by British troops, and then at Bloody Sunday in 1972, when British soldiers opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing fourteen. On his second, he was a company commander in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint ambush (1979), when the IRA killed 18 soldiers with two roadside bombs, the British Army's heaviest single loss of life during the Troubles. He was assigned to a staff post at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1982 before assuming command of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, in 1984. Jackson was posted to Northern Ireland for the third time, as a brigade commander, in the early 1990s."
tagline: "British Army officer (1944–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GeneralSirMikeJackson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-03-21"
deathDate: "2024-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.53
  momentum:             0.3463457587320224
  historical:           14.18713333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2859152/"
    handle:    "nm2859152"
sources:
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson_(General)"
    title: "Mike Jackson (General)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson_(British_Army_officer)"
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    title: "Mike Jackson"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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