# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tikka-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:18.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tikka-khan"
name: "Tikka Khan"
slug: "tikka-khan"
description: "Tikka Khan was a Pakistani military officer who served as the first chief of the army staff from 1972 to 1976. He, along with Yahya Khan and Abdul Hamid Khan, is considered a chief architect of the 1971 Bengali genocide, occurring under his governorship over East Pakistan, for which he is referred to as the Butcher of Bengal in Bangladesh."
tagline: "Pakistani military officer (1915–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Tekka_Khan.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1915-07-07"
deathDate: "2002-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.35697066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "تكا خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "টিক্কা খান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikka_Khan"
    title: "Tikka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikka_Khan"
    title: "Tikka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "टिक्का खान"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikka_Khan"
    title: "Tikka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tikka Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хан, Тикка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "蒂卡·汗"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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