# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-cortes-castro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:18:04.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-cortes-castro"
name: "León Cortés Castro"
slug: "leon-cortes-castro"
description: "León Cortés Castro was a Costa Rican educator, lawyer and politician who served as the 28th President of Costa Rica from 1936 to 1940. His presidency was marked by an extensive public works program, including the construction of numerous public schools and the former La Sabana International Airport, leading contemporaries to refer to his government as the gobierno del cemento y la varilla."
tagline: "President of Costa Rica (1882-1946)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1882-12-08"
deathDate: "1946-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             6.568047337278109
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump