# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margeir-petursson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:18:22.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margeir-petursson"
name: "Margeir Pétursson"
slug: "margeir-petursson"
description: "Margeir Pétursson is an Icelandic banker and chess grandmaster. He founded MP Bank in 1999, and has owned Bank Lviv since 2006. He was Icelandic Chess Champion in 1986 and 1987, and Nordic Chess Champion in 1987."
tagline: "Icelandic chess grandmaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P%C3%A9tursson%2CMargeir_1980_Malta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1960-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             2.640000000000001
  historical:           10.07235466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Маргейр Петурссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارجير پيتورسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margeir_P%C3%A9tursson"
    title: "Margeir Pétursson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396774"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump