# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mir-sultan-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:08.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mir-sultan-khan"
name: "Mir Sultan Khan"
slug: "mir-sultan-khan"
description: "Sultan Khan was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s. The son of a Muslim landlord and preacher, Khan travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four attempts, and had tournament and match results that placed him among the top ten players in the world. Sir Umar then brought him back to his homeland, where he gave up chess and returned to cultivate his ancestral farmlands in the area which became Pakistan. He lived there before dying in his sixties in the city of Sargodha. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld have called him \"perhaps the greatest natural player of modern times\". In 2024 FIDE posthumously awarded him the title of Honorary Grandmaster."
tagline: "Chess master from British India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mir-sultan-khan-9bd870fc-ef0f-4ed4-af7a-b7758a9ae33-resize-750.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1905"
deathDate: "1966-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.305804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump