# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-medina
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:58:40.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-medina"
name: "Ernest Medina"
slug: "ernest-medina"
description: "Ernest Lou Medina was a captain of infantry in the United States Army. He served during the Vietnam War. He was the commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry of the 11th Brigade, Americal Division, the unit responsible for the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968. He was court-martialed in 1971 for his role in that massacre, but acquitted the same year."
tagline: "US Army officer (1936–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernest_Medina.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1936-08-27"
deathDate: "2018-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.102333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إرنست ميدينا"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ernest Medina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Medina"
    title: "Ernest Medina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Medina"
    title: "Ernest Medina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Medina"
    title: "Ernest Medina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アーネスト・メディナ"
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    title: "Ernest Medina"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump