# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/regina-benjamin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:14:49.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/regina-benjamin"
name: "Regina Benjamin"
slug: "regina-benjamin"
description: "Regina Marcia Benjamin is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine."
tagline: "18th Surgeon General of the United States"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Regina_Benjamin_official_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             6.744186046511628
  historical:           8.359181333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/reginabenjamin"
    handle:    "reginabenjamin"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/regina.benjamin/"
    handle:    "regina.benjamin"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://reginabenjamin.net/"
sources:
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    title: "ريجينا بنجامين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Regina Benjamin"
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    title: "Regina Benjamin"
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    title: "Regina Benjamin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Regina Benjamin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump