# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:49:42.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-wright"
name: "Peter Wright"
slug: "peter-wright"
description: "Peter Maurice Wright CBE was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher, written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé detailing what Wright claimed were serious institutional failures he investigated within MI5. Wright is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, counter-intelligence chief of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1954 to 1975."
tagline: "English scientist and former MI5 intelligence officer (1916–1995)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-08-09"
deathDate: "1995-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.39
  momentum:             0.08620689655172414
  historical:           6.634421333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright_(oficer)"
    title: "Peter Wright (oficer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright"
    title: "Peter Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maurice_Wright"
    title: "Peter Maurice Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright_(MI5_officer)"
    title: "Peter Wright (MI5 officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright_(MI5)"
    title: "Peter Wright (MI5)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98"
    title: "פיטר רייט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright_(MI5)"
    title: "Peter Wright (MI5)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3124586"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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