# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-oberdorfer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:11:25.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-oberdorfer"
name: "Don Oberdorfer"
slug: "don-oberdorfer"
description: "Donald Oberdorfer Jr. was an American professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with a specialty in Korea, and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with The Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers. His book on Mike Mansfield, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American Statesman and Diplomat, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize in 2003."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Don_Oberdorfer.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1931-05-28"
deathDate: "2015-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump