# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-johnson-q5724935
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:45:10.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-johnson-q5724935"
name: "Henry Johnson"
slug: "henry-johnson-q5724935"
description: "William Henry Johnson, commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while suffering 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House."
tagline: "Medal of Honor recipient (1892–1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Lincoln_Johnson_in_uniform.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1892-07-15"
deathDate: "1929-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.37
  momentum:             5.772671523698548
  historical:           7.988708000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Johnson"
    title: "William Henry Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A)"
    title: "هنري جونسون (جندي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Conson_(h%C9%99rb%C3%A7i%2C_1892)"
    title: "Henri Conson (hərbçi, 1892)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Johnson"
    title: "William Henry Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson_(World_War_I_soldier)"
    title: "Henry Johnson (World War I soldier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson_(soldado_de_la_Primera_Guerra_Mundial)"
    title: "Henry Johnson (soldado de la Primera Guerra Mundial)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson"
    title: "Henry Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Johnson"
    title: "Henry Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5724935"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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