# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-salmela
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:55:28.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-salmela"
name: "Hugo Salmela"
slug: "hugo-salmela"
description: "Hugo Salmela was one of the Red Guard military leaders in the 1918 Finnish Civil War. He was a saw-mill worker from the town of Kotka in Eastern Finland, without any military background. Salmela was also known as an enthusiastic amateur actor in the local workers' theatre. After the Red Guards were formed in the late 1917, Salmela became the leader of the Kymi Guard."
tagline: "Red Guard military leader in the 1918 Finnish Civil War"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugo_Salmela.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1884-06-13"
deathDate: "1918-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.150001333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCqo_Salmela"
    title: "Hüqo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%A1"
    title: "Հյուգու Սալմելա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%9B%84%EA%B3%A0_%EC%82%B4%EB%A9%9C%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "후고 살멜라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Salmela"
    title: "Hugo Salmela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BE"
    title: "Салмела, Хуго"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2470755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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