# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonids-kalnins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:05:07.355Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonids-kalnins"
name: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
slug: "leonids-kalnins"
description: "Lieutenant General Leonīds Kalniņš is a Latvian former general, who served as the Commander of the Joint Headquarters. He was born in 1957 in the Russian Pervomaysky District and attended the Dobele R. Eihes Secondary School in his youth. After graduating in 1975, he began his service in the Soviet Armed Forces, attending the Vilnius Higher Airborne Defense School. In 1990 he graduated from the Kharkov Military Academy in Ukraine. In 1997, he began his service in an infantry battalion in the Latvian National Armed Forces. His first official position he took was as the Chief of the Operational Planning Board of the Latvian National Guard Headquarters. In 2006, Kalniņš was appointed as deputy commander of the Latvian Contingent in Iraq. Between 2010 and 2013, he studied at the Baltic Defence College in Estonia and the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Kansas. In November 2016, he was promoted to the post of Commander of the Joint Headquarters of the NAF and was confirmed by the Saeima as Chief of defence at the end of the year. He began his duties as NAF Commander on January 27, 2017. He is a recipient of the Order of Viesturs. On November 21, 2024, he was replaced as the Commander of the Joint Headquarters by Major General Kaspars Pudāns."
tagline: "Latvian general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon%C4%ABds_Kalni%C5%86%C5%A1_(Leonids_Kalnins)_(2024)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1957-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           8.539237333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "LeonidsKalnins"
sources:
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    title: "Леонід Калниньш"
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    title: "ليونيدس كالنينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%C4%ABds_Kalni%C5%86%C5%A1"
    title: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonīds Kalniņš"
    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