# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-hilsman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:39:27.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-hilsman"
name: "Roger Hilsman"
slug: "roger-hilsman"
description: "Roger Hilsman Jr. was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting wounded in combat, and then as a guerilla leader for the Office of Strategic Services. He later became an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and briefly to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while he served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1961 to 1963 and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1963 to 1964."
tagline: "American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author (1919-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Hilsman_Department_of_State.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1919-11-23"
deathDate: "2014-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             0.3827751196172249
  historical:           5.082290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "罗杰·希尔斯曼"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358341"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump