# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-dickson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:51:42.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-dickson"
name: "William Dickson"
slug: "william-dickson"
description: "Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, was a Royal Naval Air Service aviator during the First World War, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years and a Royal Air Force commander during and after the Second World War. Dickson was Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1950s, in which role his main preoccupation was the establishment of the V Force and the necessary supporting weapons, airfields and personnel. He also served as the first Chief of the Defence Staff in the late 1950s."
tagline: "Royal Naval Air Service aviator (1898–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Air_Vice-Marshal_Dickson_near_Venafro%2C_Italy_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1898-09-24"
deathDate: "1987-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.027792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Dickson"
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    title: "ويليام ديكسون (طيار من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickson_(oficial_de_la_RAF)"
    title: "William Dickson (oficial de la RAF)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Dickson"
    title: "William F. Dickson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickson_(RAF-Offizier)"
    title: "William Dickson (RAF-Offizier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickson_(RAF_officer)"
    title: "William Dickson (RAF officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dickson"
    title: "William Dickson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2477646"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump