# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-velez-de-guevara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:49.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-velez-de-guevara"
name: "Luis Vélez de Guevara"
slug: "luis-velez-de-guevara"
description: "Luis Vélez de Guevara was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.\nHe was born at Écija and was of Jewish converso descent.\nAfter graduating as a sizar at the University of Osuna in 1596, he joined the household of Rodrigo de Castro, Cardinal-Archbishop of Seville, and celebrated the marriage of Philip III in a poem signed Vélez de Santander, a name which he continued to use until some years later."
tagline: "Spanish writer (1579–1644)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Placa_de_la_calle_de_Luis_V%C3%A9lez_de_Guevara_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1579-08-01"
deathDate: "1644-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.720111854185265
  historical:           15.36058533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  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