# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-apiata
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:43:45.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-apiata"
name: "Willie Apiata"
slug: "willie-apiata"
description: "Bill Henry \"Willie\" Apiata, VC is an honorary warrant officer class one in the New Zealand Army Reserve Forces. As a corporal in the New Zealand Special Air Service, he became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand. He received the award on 2 July 2007 for bravery under fire during the War in Afghanistan in 2004, in which he carried a gravely wounded comrade across a battlefield, under fire, to safety."
tagline: "New Zealand Special Air Service member and recipient of Victoria Cross"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Apiata_-_Waitangi_2020_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1972-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             2.60830728003573
  historical:           4.701628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  239
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "بيل اپياتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Apiata"
    title: "Willie Apiata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Apiata"
    title: "Willie Apiata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Апиата, Билл Генри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Apiata"
    title: "Bill Apiata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1110625"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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