# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-hoogland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:47:09.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-hoogland"
name: "Herman Hoogland"
slug: "herman-hoogland"
description: "Herman Hoogland was the first draughts world-champion from the Netherlands. He dominated the game for over a decade and became a leading student of it. He began playing the game seriously in 1908 at age seventeen. In 1912 he became world champion for the first time. From 1923 onward he became an advocate for a different way of playing the game."
tagline: "Dutch draughts player (1891-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De_wereldkampioen_in_het_dammen_Herman_Hoogland_Jr_bij_het_simultaanspel_1912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1891-10-31"
deathDate: "1955-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.21
  momentum:             0.2222222222222222
  historical:           5.468322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hoogland"
    title: "Herman Hoogland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "هيرمان هوجلاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hoogland"
    title: "Herman Hoogland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Гогланд, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hoogland"
    title: "Herman Hoogland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hoogland"
    title: "Herman Hoogland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1989762"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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