# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-orlando-darby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:50:17.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-orlando-darby"
name: "William Orlando Darby"
slug: "william-orlando-darby"
description: "William O. Darby was a career United States Army officer who fought in World War II, where he was killed in action at age 34 in Italy. He was posthumously promoted to brigadier general. Darby was the founding commander of the First Ranger Battalion, which evolved into the United States Army Rangers. He was subsequently portrayed by James Garner in the 1958 theatrical film about Darby's career titled Darby's Rangers, which was also the title of his memoir, the source for many of his exploits."
tagline: "American World War II Army colonel"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Darby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1911-02-08"
deathDate: "1945-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.5
  momentum:             6.782325833559231
  historical:           7.622876000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Darby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "ويليام أورلاندو داربي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام اورلاندو داربى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Darby"
    title: "William O. Darby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orlando_Darby"
    title: "William Orlando Darby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Darby"
    title: "William O. Darby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%93%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99"
    title: "ויליאם דארבי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darby"
    title: "William Darby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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