# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-anderson-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:12.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-anderson-jr"
name: "James Anderson Jr."
slug: "james-anderson-jr"
description: "Private First Class James Anderson Jr. was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving in Vietnam in February 1967. When his Medal of Honor was awarded on August 21, 1968, he became the first African American U.S. Marine recipient of the Medal of Honor while serving in Vietnam."
tagline: "United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1947–1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Anderson%2C_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1947-01-22"
deathDate: "1967-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.63
  momentum:             8.980549966465459
  historical:           4.622032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس أندرسون جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس اندرسون جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_Jr."
    title: "James Anderson Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86)"
    title: "Андерсон, Джеймс (морской пехотинец)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_mlaj%C5%A1i"
    title: "James Anderson mlajši"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12791923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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