# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-dawkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:05.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-dawkins"
name: "Pete Dawkins"
slug: "pete-dawkins"
description: "Peter Miller Dawkins is an American business executive and former college football player, hockey player, military officer, and political candidate. Dawkins attended the United States Military Academy, where he played as a halfback for the Army Cadets football team from 1956 to 1958. As a senior in 1958 he won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and was named as a consensus All-American. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1959, he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Dawkins served as an officer in the United States Army until he retired in 1983 with the rank of brigadier general. He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Bernard W. Rogers, USA in 1983. He was a Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1988. Dawkins has held executive positions with Lehman Brothers, Bain & Company, Primerica, and Citigroup."
tagline: "Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar and U.S. Army Brigadier General"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pete_Dawkins%2C_1959%2C_West_Point_Cadet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1938-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             4.021447721179626
  historical:           5.540322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pete Dawkins"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Dawkins"
    title: "Pete Dawkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Dawkins"
    title: "Pete Dawkins"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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