# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaon-of-vilnius
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:05:41.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaon-of-vilnius"
name: "Gaon of Vilnius"
slug: "gaon-of-vilnius"
description: "Elijah ben Solomon Zalman,, also known as the Vilna Gaon, was a Lithuanian Jewish talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries."
tagline: "Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vilna_Gaon%2C_Winograd_picture.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1720-04-23"
deathDate: "1797-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.20975733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فيلنا جاوون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gaón de Vilna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Віленскі гаон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaon_de_Vilna"
    title: "Gaon de Vilna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gaon de Vilna"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヴィルナのガオン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Ben_Salomon_Salman"
    title: "Elia Ben Salomon Salman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump