# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-castellanos-contreras
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:49:04.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-castellanos-contreras"
name: "José Castellanos Contreras"
slug: "jose-castellanos-contreras"
description: "José Arturo Castellanos Contreras was a Salvadoran Army colonel and diplomat who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during World War II, and in conjunction with Jewish-Romanian businessman György Mandl, helped save up to 40,000 Central European Jews, most of them from Hungary, from Nazi persecution by providing them with fake Salvadoran citizenship certificates."
tagline: "Salvadoran diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations (1893-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jos%C3%A9_Gustavo_Guerrero_at_the_White_House_in_1927_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-12-23"
deathDate: "1977-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.20684533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump