# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mervyn-s-bennion
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:10:11.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mervyn-s-bennion"
name: "Mervyn S. Bennion"
slug: "mervyn-s-bennion"
description: "Mervyn Sharp Bennion was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for \"conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and complete disregard of his own life.\""
tagline: "United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1887-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mervyn_Sharp_Bennion.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1887-05-05"
deathDate: "1941-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             2.808219178082191
  historical:           7.463576000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ميرفين إس. بنيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ميرفين اس. بنيون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Sharp_Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn Sharp Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_S._Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn S. Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_S._Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn S. Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_S._Bennion"
    title: "Mervyn S. Bennion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552630"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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