# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sigismund-payne-best
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:34:17.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sigismund-payne-best"
name: "Sigismund Payne Best"
slug: "sigismund-payne-best"
description: "Captain Sigismund Payne Best OBE was a British Secret Intelligence Service agent during the First and Second World Wars. He was captured by German Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) men on 9 November 1939 in the Venlo Incident."
tagline: "British intelligence agent (1885-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Captain_Sigismund_Payne_Best%2C_with_monocle_(1939).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-04-14"
deathDate: "1978-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.84
  momentum:             1.831395348837209
  historical:           6.853892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "سيجيسموند باين بيست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Payne_Best"
    title: "Sigismund Payne Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Payne_Best"
    title: "Sigismund Payne Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Payne_Best"
    title: "Sigismund Payne Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Payne_Best"
    title: "Sigismund Payne Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Payne-Best"
    title: "Sigismund Payne-Best"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD-%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Пейн-Бест, Сигизмунд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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