# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-paul-vann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:37:17.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-paul-vann"
name: "John Paul Vann"
slug: "john-paul-vann"
description: "John Paul Vann was a United States Army officer and American civilian adviser during the Vietnam War. He served in World War II and the Korean War, retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1963, and returned to South Vietnam in 1965 as a civilian official with the United States Agency for International Development and later Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)."
tagline: "American military personnel of the Korean and Vietnam wars (1924-1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Paul_Vann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1924-07-02"
deathDate: "1972-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.74
  momentum:             0.1318458417849899
  historical:           4.907892
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جون پول ڤان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Vann"
    title: "John Paul Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Vann"
    title: "John Paul Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョン・ポール・ヴァン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Vann"
    title: "John Paul Vann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6252282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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