# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-rescorla
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:30:22.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-rescorla"
name: "Rick Rescorla"
slug: "rick-rescorla"
description: "Richard Cyril Rescorla was a British-American soldier, police officer, educator and private security specialist. He served as a British Army paratrooper during the Cyprus Emergency and a commissioned officer in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security."
tagline: "British American army officer, hero and victim of 9/11"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Rescorla_in_war.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-05-27"
deathDate: "2001-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.01
  momentum:             7.169017837196385
  historical:           11.02428666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1176428/"
    handle:    "nm1176428"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريك ريسكورلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla"
    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla"
    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9"
    title: "リック・レスコーラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Рескорла, Рик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla"
    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Рік Рескорла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "里克·瑞斯克拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6068455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1607409"
    title: "Rick Rescorla"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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