# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/everett-alvarez-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:49:01.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/everett-alvarez-jr"
name: "Everett Alvarez, Jr."
slug: "everett-alvarez-jr"
description: "Everett Alvarez Jr. is a retired United States Navy officer who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war (POW) in U.S. military history. Alvarez was the first U.S. pilot to be shot down and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over eight years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW, after U.S. Army Colonel Floyd James Thompson."
tagline: "American Navy officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LCDR_Alvarez.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             0.6633906633906634
  historical:           6.489573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Alvarez_Jr."
    title: "Everett Alvarez Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "ايفريت الفاريز الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%82_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%81"
    title: "Эверэт Альварэс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Alvarez_Jr."
    title: "Everett Alvarez Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Alvarez"
    title: "Everett Alvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Alvarez"
    title: "Everett Alvarez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Альварес, Эверетт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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