# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adolph-kiefer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:29.085Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adolph-kiefer"
name: "Adolph Kiefer"
slug: "adolph-kiefer"
description: "Adolph Gustav Kiefer was an American competition swimmer who swam for the University of Texas, a 100-meter gold medalist in the 1936 Summer Olympics, and a former world record-holder in numerous backstroke events. He was the first person in the world to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke. Kiefer was also an inventor of new products related to aquatics competition and a founder of Adolph Kiefer and Associates, a swimming equipment company, in 1947."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, businessman, chief executive officer (1918–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adolph_Kiefer_1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-06-27"
deathDate: "2017-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.612636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump