# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-p-yarborough
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:02:41.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-p-yarborough"
name: "William P. Yarborough"
slug: "william-p-yarborough"
description: "Lieutenant General William Pelham Yarborough was a senior United States Army officer. Yarborough designed the U.S. Army's parachutist badge, paratrooper or 'jump' boots, and the M42 airborne jump uniform. He is known as the \"Father of the Modern Green Berets.\" He was descended from the Yorkshire House of Yarborough. Yarborough was a distant cousin to such British noble figures as the Baron Deramore, Lord Alvingham, the Duke of Buccleuch and the Marquess of Bath."
tagline: "American general (1912–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_P._Yarborough2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1912-05-12"
deathDate: "2005-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             0.8878048780487804
  historical:           8.973509333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William P. Yarborough"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام بى ياربوروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Yarborough"
    title: "William P. Yarborough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Yarborough"
    title: "William P. Yarborough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Yarborough"
    title: "William P. Yarborough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Yarborough"
    title: "William P. Yarborough"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95"
    title: "ויליאם יארבורו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yarborough"
    title: "William Yarborough"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Yarborough"
    title: "William Yarborough"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump