# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olaf-kirkpatrick-kruuse-caroe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:02:54.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olaf-kirkpatrick-kruuse-caroe"
name: "Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe"
slug: "olaf-kirkpatrick-kruuse-caroe"
description: "Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse Caroe, was an administrator in British India, working for the Indian Civil Service and the Indian Political Service. He served as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India during the World War II and later as the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province. As Foreign Secretary, he was responsible for reviving the McMahon Line, which included the Assam Himalayan frontier within India. After retirement, Caroe took on the role of a strategist of the Great Game and the Cold War on the southern periphery of the Soviet Union. His ideas are believed to have been highly influential in shaping the post-War policies of Britain and the United States. Scholar Peter Brobst calls him the \"quintessential master of the Great Game\" and the \"foremost strategic thinker of British India\" in the years before independence."
tagline: "British colonial administrator (1892–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Olf_Caroe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-11-15"
deathDate: "1981-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.620088
  currentAttention:     97.64309764309765
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olaf_Caroe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "اولاف كيركباتريك كروز كارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Caroe"
    title: "Olaf Caroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Caroe"
    title: "Olaf Caroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "سر اولف کیرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%84"
    title: "Кэроу, Олаф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Caroe"
    title: "Olaf Caroe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%92"
    title: "اولف کروئے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1540307"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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