# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-peterson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:19.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-peterson"
name: "Pete Peterson"
slug: "pete-peterson"
description: "Douglas Brian \"Pete\" Peterson is an American politician and diplomat. He served as a United States Air Force pilot during the Vietnam War and spent over six years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese army after his plane was shot down. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 1996 and returned to Hanoi when he became the first United States Ambassador to Vietnam in 1997. He was an ambassador until July 2001, after which he devoted himself to philanthropic work."
tagline: "Recipient of the Purple Heart medal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Petepeterson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1935-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.899210666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "پيتى پيتيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "پت پترزون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Peterson"
    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Peterson"
    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Peterson"
    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Peterson"
    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Питерсон, Дуглас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Peterson"
    title: "Pete Peterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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