# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-w-whittlesey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:27:59.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-w-whittlesey"
name: "Charles W. Whittlesey"
slug: "charles-w-whittlesey"
description: "Charles White Whittlesey was a United States Army Medal of Honor recipient who led the Lost Battalion in the Meuse–Argonne offensive during World War I. He committed suicide by drowning when he jumped from a ship en route to Havana on November 26, 1921, at age 37."
tagline: "United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1884-1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_W._Whittlesey_-_WWI_Medal_of_Honor_recipient.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1884-01-20"
deathDate: "1921-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             3.883677298311444
  historical:           6.889136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 183
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926583/"
    handle:    "nm0926583"
sources:
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    title: "Уиттлси, Чарльз Уайт"
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    title: "تشارلز دبليو. وايتليسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Whittlesey"
    title: "Charles W. Whittlesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Whittlesey"
    title: "Charles W. Whittlesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_White_Whittlesey"
    title: "Charles White Whittlesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_White_Whittlesey"
    title: "Charles White Whittlesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_White_Whittlesey"
    title: "Charles White Whittlesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2565449"
    title: "Charles W. Whittlesey"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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