# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nadja-west
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:22:47.775Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nadja-west"
name: "Nadja West"
slug: "nadja-west"
description: "Nadja Yudith West is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command. West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major general and the first black female major general in Army Medicine. West is also the first Army black female lieutenant general. She is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy."
tagline: "American physician and retired general; former Surgeon General (born 1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lt._Gen._Nadja_Y._West_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.55
  momentum:             3.212996389891697
  historical:           6.652704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ناديا ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "নাডজা ওয়েস্ট"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nadja West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_West"
    title: "Nadja West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_Yamma"
    title: "Nadja Yamma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98"
    title: "נדיה וסט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_West"
    title: "Nadja West"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22089391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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