# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ignacio-anaya-garcia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:27.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ignacio-anaya-garcia"
name: "Ignacio Anaya García"
slug: "ignacio-anaya-garcia"
description: "Ignacio Anaya García was a Mexican maître d'hotel who invented the popular Tex-Mex dish nachos at the Victory Club restaurant a couple miles from the border of Texas in Mexico in 1943. After nachos grew in popularity, Anaya was promoted to chef, and he eventually started his own restaurant in the 1960s."
tagline: "Mexican executive chef (1895-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ignacio_Anaya_Inventor_of_Nachos.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1897-08-15"
deathDate: "1975-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.394682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 132
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya_Garc%C3%ADa"
    title: "Ignacio Anaya García"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya_Garc%C3%ADa"
    title: "Ignacio Anaya García"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya"
    title: "Ignacio Anaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya_Garc%C3%ADa"
    title: "Ignacio Anaya García"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "ایگناسیو آنیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%95_%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "איגנסיו אנאיה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B7%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A4"
    title: "イグナシオ・アナヤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya"
    title: "Ignacio Anaya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%2C_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Анайя, Игнасио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11286449"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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