# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laszlo-polgar
# Generated: 2026-09-06T19:05:53.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laszlo-polgar"
name: "László Polgár"
slug: "laszlo-polgar"
description: "László Polgár is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively. Judit is widely considered the greatest female chess player ever, as she is the only woman to have been ranked in the top 10 worldwide, while Zsuzsa became the Women's World Chess Champion."
tagline: "Hungarian chess teacher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laszlo_Polgar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1946-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.725653206650831
  historical:           20.89916
  currentAttention:     15.14251781472684
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 27
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "László Polgár"
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    title: "László Polgár"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r_(enseignant_d'%C3%A9checs)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Լասլո Պոլգար (մանկավարժ)"
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    title: "László Polgár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r_(szachista)"
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    title: "László Polgár"
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    title: "László Polgár"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Ласло Полгар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump