# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-buckles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:00:57.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-buckles"
name: "Frank Buckles"
slug: "frank-buckles"
description: "Frank Woodruff Buckles was a corporal in the United States Army and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe."
tagline: "United States Army soldier and centenarian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Buckles_March_6%2C_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1901-02-01"
deathDate: "2011-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.319695646750655
  historical:           15.66003333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.frankbuckles.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Frank Buckles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles"
    title: "Frank Buckles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%AD%ED%81%AC_%EB%B2%84%ED%81%B4%EC%8A%A4"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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