# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmars-zemgalis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:37:24.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmars-zemgalis"
name: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
slug: "elmars-zemgalis"
description: "Elmārs Zemgalis was a Latvian and American chess master and mathematics professor at Highline College. He was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 2003."
tagline: "American chess player (1923-2014)"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-09-09"
deathDate: "2014-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4
  historical:           9.410296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Елмарс Земгаліс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "المارس زيمجاليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmars_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmars Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%C4%81rs_Zemgalis"
    title: "Elmārs Zemgalis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Земгалис, Элмар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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