# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-speirs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:10:44.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-speirs"
name: "Ronald Speirs"
slug: "ronald-speirs"
description: "Ronald Charles Speirs was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially assigned as a platoon leader in B Company of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Speirs was reassigned to D Company of the 2nd Battalion before the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and later assigned as commander of E Company during an assault on Foy, Belgium, after the siege of Bastogne was broken during the Battle of the Bulge. He finished the war in the European Theater as a captain. Speirs served in the Korean War, as a major commanding a rifle company and as a staff officer. He later became the American governor for Spandau Prison in Berlin. He retired as a lieutenant colonel."
tagline: "American paratrooper (1920-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Speirs_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1920-04-20"
deathDate: "2007-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.230934818173991
  historical:           17.71828533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump