# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-dearlove
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:30.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-dearlove"
name: "Richard Dearlove"
slug: "richard-dearlove"
description: "Sir Richard Billing Dearlove is a retired British intelligence officer who was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a role known informally as \"C\", from 1999 until 6 May 2004. He was head of MI6 during the invasion of Iraq. He was criticised by the Iraq Inquiry for providing unverified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2015."
tagline: "British intelligence chief"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Dearlove1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1945-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.72
  momentum:             4.109256449165402
  historical:           5.167364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ريتشارد ديرلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dearlove"
    title: "Richard Dearlove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dearlove"
    title: "Richard Dearlove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4"
    title: "リチャード・ディアラヴ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Дирлав, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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