# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-shankland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:58:08.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-shankland"
name: "Sam Shankland"
slug: "sam-shankland"
description: "Samuel L. Shankland is an American chess grandmaster. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018."
tagline: "American chess grandmaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamShankland23c.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1991-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "GMShanky"
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    handle:    "https:"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump