# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-bushell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:12:53.619Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-bushell"
name: "Roger Bushell"
slug: "roger-bushell"
description: "Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force. He masterminded the famous \"Great Escape\" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police."
tagline: "RAF officer (1910–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Bushell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1910-08-30"
deathDate: "1944-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.427437333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%92'%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C"
    title: "רוג'ר בושל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bushell"
    title: "Roger Bushell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3438759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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