# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-carmona
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:15:10.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-carmona"
name: "Richard Carmona"
slug: "richard-carmona"
description: "Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda."
tagline: "American physician and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_carmona.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.79
  momentum:             2.580645161290322
  historical:           4.467392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ريتشارد كارمونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ريتشارد كارمونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "ریچارد کارمونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona"
    title: "Richard Carmona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona"
    title: "Richard Carmona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7324628"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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