# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-yon
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:20:44.863Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-yon"
name: "Michael Yon"
slug: "michael-yon"
description: "Michael Yon is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Yon_in_Iraq_cropped.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.329450666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Michael_Yon"
    handle:    "Michael_Yon"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage"
    handle:    "MichaelYonFanPage"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon"
    title: "Michael Yon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل يون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل يون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5_%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99"
    title: "ไมเคิล ยอน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yon"
    title: "Michael Yon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マイケル・ヨン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6835486"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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