# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-westphal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:38:52.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-westphal"
name: "Joseph W. Westphal"
slug: "joseph-w-westphal"
description: "Joseph William Westphal is an American politician and diplomat who was most recently the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He served as the 30th United States Under Secretary of the Army from 2009 to 2014."
tagline: "American ambassador"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_W._Westphal%2C_U.S._Ambassador_to_Saudi_Arabia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.33
  momentum:             9.272727272727272
  historical:           4.811016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "جوزيف ويستفال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "چوزيف ويستفال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Westphal"
    title: "Joseph W. Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Westphal"
    title: "Joseph W. Westphal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%96%D7%A3_%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%9C"
    title: "ג'וזף וסטפאל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1708182"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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