# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-e-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:54.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-e-ballard"
name: "Donald E. Ballard"
slug: "donald-e-ballard"
description: "Donald Everett Ballard is a retired colonel of the Kansas National Guard and former member of the United States Navy. As a hospital corpsman in the Vietnam War, he received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on May 16, 1968."
tagline: "United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_E_Ballard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.52
  momentum:             6.128028272240797
  historical:           5.700830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ballard"
    title: "Donald Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%8A._%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "دونالد إي. بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "دونالد اى. بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%AD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Баллард, Дональд Эверетт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Ballard"
    title: "Donald E. Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ballard"
    title: "Donald Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5294272"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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