Juan Sebastián Restrepo (October 7, 1986 – July 22, 2007) was a Colombian American soldier and medic.

Restrepo was killed in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, of neck wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire.

His mother, Marcela Pardo, a physical therapist, named him after the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

He rarely saw his father Gerardo Restrepo Ramirez, a pediatric neurologist, after his parents separated when he was 2.

[2] Unable to afford to go to college, Restrepo returned to Colombia, where he studied classical violin at the Luis A. Calvo Academy, District University of Bogotá.

[2] In February 2006, Restrepo attended basic training at Fort Sill (Bravo Battery 1st Battalion 79th Field Artillery Regiment).

[2] Two months after his death, his platoon built a new combat outpost near where he had died and named it OP Restrepo.

It had no running water or electricity, but was essentially a shantytown constructed from tarp and plywood, and protected by giant bags of rocks.