# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-t-whitaker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:52:11.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-t-whitaker"
name: "Norman T. Whitaker"
slug: "norman-t-whitaker"
description: "Norman Tweed Whitaker was an American International Master of chess, a lawyer, a civil servant, and a chess author. He was convicted of several crimes, was disbarred from the practice of law, and served several terms in prison. His most infamous criminal escapade was a confidence trick involving the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932."
tagline: "American chess player (1890-1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Norman_Tweed_Whitaker_%281969%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1890-04-09"
deathDate: "1975-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.92
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.471526666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Whitaker"
    title: "Norman Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%89._%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "نورمان تى. وايتاكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_T._Whitaker"
    title: "Norman T. Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Уитакер, Норман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "נורמן ויטקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans_Vaitekers"
    title: "Normans Vaitekers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7052841"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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