# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ely-culbertson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:56:25.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ely-culbertson"
name: "Ely Culbertson"
slug: "ely-culbertson"
description: "Elie Almon Culbertson, known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant during the 1930s. He played a major role in the popularization of the new game and was widely regarded as \"the man who made contract bridge\". He was a great showman who became rich, was highly extravagant, and lost and gained fortunes several times over."
tagline: "American contract bridge entrepreneur (1891–1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ely_Culbertson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1891-07-22"
deathDate: "1955-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.02
  momentum:             1.738095238095238
  historical:           10.28441466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "إلي كالبرتسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely_Culbertson"
    title: "Ely Culbertson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1122612"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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