Elmārs Zemgalis (9 September 1923 – 8 December 2014) was a Latvian and American chess master and mathematics professor at Highline College.
[1] Zemgalis started to play chess when he was eleven, eventually winning the championships of Riga and Jelgava.
[2] After the Soviet Union invaded his native Latvia for the second time in 1944, Zemgalis fled to Germany.
As a Displaced Person after World War II, he played in twelve international tournaments.
William John Donaldson wrote a book on his chess career: Elmars Zemgalis: Grandmaster without the title (2001).