# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leigh-ann-hester
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:10.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leigh-ann-hester"
name: "Leigh Ann Hester"
slug: "leigh-ann-hester"
description: "Leigh Ann Hester is a United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq."
tagline: "American soldier who was awarded the Silver Star"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leigh_Ann_Hester_on_February_3%2C_2007_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1982-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.574378666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester"
    title: "Leigh Ann Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A2%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "لي آن هيستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester"
    title: "Leigh Ann Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96_%D0%95%D0%BD%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Лі Енн Гестер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester"
    title: "Leigh Ann Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester"
    title: "Leigh Ann Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6519519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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