# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-wayne-parrish
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:36:53.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-wayne-parrish"
name: "Jerry Wayne Parrish"
slug: "jerry-wayne-parrish"
description: "Jerry Wayne Parrish, also known by his Korean name Kim Yu-il, was a United States Army corporal who was one of seven American soldiers to defect to North Korea, four of them during the 1960s, in the years after the Korean War."
tagline: "American defector (1944-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Wayne_Parrish.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-03-10"
deathDate: "1998-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.44
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.763290666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Wayne_Parrish"
    title: "Jerry Wayne Parrish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "چيرى واين پاريش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Wayne_Parrish"
    title: "Jerry Wayne Parrish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%88%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Пэрриш, Джерри Уэйн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9"
    title: "ג'רי ויין פאריש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5"
    title: "ジェリー・パリッシュ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6184620"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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