# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chester-gillette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:37:53.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chester-gillette"
name: "Chester Gillette"
slug: "chester-gillette"
description: "Chester Ellsworth Gillette was an American convicted murderer who became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The novel, and thus Gillette's case indirectly, was adapted in turn for the 1931 film An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun."
tagline: "American convicted murderer (1883-1908)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chester-Gillete.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1883-08-09"
deathDate: "1908-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.26
  momentum:             0.7130730050933783
  historical:           5.764154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "צ'סטר ג'ילט"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette"
    title: "Chester Gillette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88"
    title: "チェスター・ジレット"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette"
    title: "Chester Gillette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette"
    title: "Chester Gillette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Джиллетт, Честер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette"
    title: "Chester Gillette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2577702"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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