List of Famous Spys

Robert Maxwell

Jan Ludvik Hyman Binyamin Hoch
First Name Robert
Last Name Maxwell
Born on June 10, 1923
Died on November 5, 1991 (aged 68)
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Ian Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Member of Parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Maxwell rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. After his death, huge discrepancies in his companies' finances were revealed, including his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund.

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Mata Hari

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
First Name Mata
Last Name Hari
Born on August 7, 1876
Died on October 15, 1917 (aged 41)
Spy

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Despite her having admitted under interrogation to taking money to work as a German spy, many people still believe she was innocent because the French Army needed a scapegoat. She was executed by firing squad in France.

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Roald Dahl

First Name Roald
Born on September 13, 1916
Died on November 23, 1990 (aged 74)
Spy

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.

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Eli Cohen

First Name Eli
Born on December 6, 1924
Died on May 18, 1965 (aged 40)
Spy

Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen, commonly known as Eli Cohen, was an Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in 1961–65 in Syria, where he developed close relationships with the Syrian political and military hierarchy, and became the chief adviser to the Minister of Defense.

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Alexander Litvinenko

First Name Alexander
Last Name Litvinenko
Died on November 23, 2006 (aged 36)
Spy

Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko was a British-naturalised Russian defector and former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organized crime. According to US diplomats, Litvinenko coined the phrase "mafia state".

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Sarabjit Singh

First Name Sarabjit
Born on December 18, 1963
Died on May 2, 2013 (aged 49)
Born in India
Spy

Sarabjit Singh Attwal was an Indian national allegedly convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court. He was tried and convicted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan for a series of bomb attacks in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 bystanders in 1990. However, according to India, Sarabjit was a farmer who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border, three months after the bombings.

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Sergei Skripal

First Name Sergei
Last Name Skripal
Born on June 23, 1951 (age 71)
Spy

Sergei Viktorovich Skripal is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. In December 2004, he was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He settled in the UK in 2010 following the Illegals Program spy swap. He holds both Russian and British citizenship.

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Nicholas Alkemade

First Name Nicholas
Last Name Alkemade
Born on December 10, 1922
Died on June 22, 1987 (aged 64)
Spy

Nicholas Stephen Alkemade was an English tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute when abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany.

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Yevgeny Zinichev

First Name Yevgeny
Born on August 18, 1966
Died on September 8, 2021 (aged 55)
Born in Russia
Spy

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zinichev, is a Russian statesman, politician and military officer. He serves as the Minister of Emergency Situations since May 18, 2018. He is also the member of the Security Council of Russia since May 28, 2018. In 2016, he served as the acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast before being replaced by Anton Alikhanov. He is ranked General of the Army as of 2020.

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Perseus

Spy

Perseus (Персей) was the code name of a hypothetical Soviet atomic spy that, if real, would have allegedly breached United States national security by infiltrating Los Alamos National Laboratory during the development of the Manhattan Project, and consequently, would have been instrumental for the Soviets in the development of nuclear weapons.

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Robert Hanssen

First Name Robert
Last Name Hanssen
Born on April 18, 1944 (age 79)
Spy

Robert Philip Hanssen is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen is currently serving fifteen consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.

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Ravindra Kaushik

First Name Ravindra
Last Name Kaushik
Born on April 11, 1952
Died on October 31, 2001 (aged 49)
Born in India
Spy

Ravindra Kaushik was an Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent who lived undercover in Pakistan before he was jailed and died.

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Francis Gary Powers

First Name Francis
Last Name Powers
Born on August 17, 1929
Died on August 1, 1977 (aged 47)
Spy

Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

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Anthony Blunt

First Name Anthony
Last Name Blunt
Born on September 26, 1907
Died on March 26, 1983 (aged 75)
Spy

Anthony Frederick Blunt, styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979, was a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union.

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Rudolf Abel

William August Fisher
First Name Rudolf
Last Name Abel
Born on July 11, 1903
Died on November 15, 1971 (aged 68)
Spy

Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, real name William August Fisher, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias when arrested on charges of conspiracy by the FBI in 1957.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell
First Name John
Last Name Carré
Born on October 19, 1931
Died on December 12, 2020 (aged 89)
Spy

David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works.

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T. E. Lawrence

First Name T.
Last Name Lawrence
Born on August 16, 1888
Died on May 19, 1935 (aged 46)
Spy

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British archaeologist, army-officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.

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Erich Gimpel

First Name Erich
Last Name Gimpel
Born on March 25, 1910
Died on September 3, 2010 (aged 100)
Spy

Erich Gimpel was a German spy during World War II. Together with William Colepaugh, he took part in Operation Elster ("Magpie") an espionage mission to the United States in 1944, but was subsequently captured by the FBI in New York City.

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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell Philby
First Name Kim
Last Name Philby
Born on January 1, 1912
Died on May 11, 1988 (aged 76)
Spy

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.

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Werner Teske

First Name Werner
Last Name Teske
Born on April 24, 1942
Died on June 26, 1981 (aged 39)
Born in Germany
Spy

Werner Teske was an East German Hauptmann (Captain) of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) who was executed for "planned treason" in June 1981.

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