# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hull-q4495108
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:32:47.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-hull-q4495108"
name: "Richard Hull"
slug: "richard-hull-q4495108"
description: "Field Marshal Sir Richard Amyatt Hull was a senior British Army officer. He was the last Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), holding the post from 1961 to 1964, and the first Chief of the General Staff (CGS), holding that post until 1965, and, as such, was the professional head of the British Army. He later became Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) from 1965 to 1967, the professional head of the entire British Armed Forces. He served with distinction during the Second World War, fighting from 1942 to 1945 in North Africa, Italy and Western Europe, became the youngest divisional commander in the British Army, and, after the war was over, he advised the British government on the response to the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation in the 1960s."
tagline: "Army officer (1907–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/General_Sir_Richard_Hull_speaks_to_officers_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1907-05-07"
deathDate: "1989-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard Hull"
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    title: "ريتشارد هول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Hull"
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    title: "Richard Amyatt Hull"
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    title: "Халл, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump