# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salvatore-giunta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:00:48.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salvatore-giunta"
name: "Salvatore Giunta"
slug: "salvatore-giunta"
description: "Salvatore Augustine Giunta is a former United States Army soldier and the first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States Armed Forces' highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor. Giunta was cited for saving the lives of members of his squad on October 25, 2007, during the War in Afghanistan. He left the United States Army in June 2011."
tagline: "United States Army Medal of Honor recipient"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Salvatore_Giunta_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1985-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.598845598845599
  historical:           13.02531866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_A._Giunta"
    title: "Salvator A. Giunta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Salvatore Giunta"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump