# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-birch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:40:13.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-birch"
name: "John Birch"
slug: "john-birch"
description: "John Morrison Birch was a United States Army Air Forces military intelligence captain, OSS field agent in China during World War II, as well as former Baptist minister and missionary. He was killed in a confrontation with Chinese Communist soldiers during an assignment he was ordered on by the OSS, ten days after the war ended. Birch was posthumously awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal."
tagline: "American military intelligence officer (1918–1945)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/John_Birch.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1918-05-08"
deathDate: "1945-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.85
  momentum:             2.680534484770685
  historical:           6.065062666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_(missionary)"
    title: "John Birch (missionary)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4_(%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%B1)"
    title: "جون بيرش (مبشر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_(Missionar)"
    title: "John Birch (Missionar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%91%D1%80%D1%87%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бёрч, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch"
    title: "John Birch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch"
    title: "John Birch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699339"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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