# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:42:29.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-young"
name: "Charles Young"
slug: "charles-young"
description: "Charles Young was an American soldier. He was the third African American graduate of the United States Military Academy, the first Black U.S. national park superintendent, first Black military attaché, first Black man to achieve the rank of colonel in the United States Army, and highest-ranking Black officer in the Regular Army until his death in 1922."
tagline: "African-American graduate of West Point (1864-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles.Young.1919.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1864-03-12"
deathDate: "1922-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.08
  momentum:             2.421425409473218
  historical:           4.701016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA_(%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A)"
    title: "تشارلز يونغ (جندي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Young_(Oberst)"
    title: "Charles Young (Oberst)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Young_(United_States_Army_officer)"
    title: "Charles Young (United States Army officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Young_(mwanajeshi)"
    title: "Charles Young (mwanajeshi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Young"
    title: "Charles Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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