# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-kovic
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:04:35.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-kovic"
name: "Ron Kovic"
slug: "ron-kovic"
description: "Ronald Lawrence Kovic is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the 1989 film of the same name which starred Tom Cruise as Kovic and was co-written by Kovic and directed by Oliver Stone."
tagline: "Anti-war activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Kovic_2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.29032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468407/"
    handle:    "nm0468407"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic"
    title: "Ron Kovic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Ron Kovic"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump