# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niaz-murshed
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:05:28.372Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niaz-murshed"
name: "Niaz Murshed"
slug: "niaz-murshed"
description: "Niaz Murshed is a Bangladeshi chess grandmaster. In 1987, at the age of 21, he became the first South Asian to earn the grandmaster title."
tagline: "Bangladeshi chess player"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1966-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.75
  momentum:             2.205882352941177
  historical:           7.878654666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Morshed"
    title: "Niaz Morshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "نياز مورشيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6"
    title: "নিয়াজ মোরশেদ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Murshed"
    title: "Niaz Murshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Murshed"
    title: "Niaz Murshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Murshed"
    title: "Niaz Murshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Murshed"
    title: "Niaz Murshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niaz_Murshed"
    title: "Niaz Murshed"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%B7"
    title: "Муршед, Нияз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2565354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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