# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-morphy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:24:56.210Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-morphy"
name: "Paul Morphy"
slug: "paul-morphy"
description: "Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators have concluded that he was far ahead of his time."
tagline: "US chess player (1837–1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulmorphyHair.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1837-06-22"
deathDate: "1884-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump