Samuel Gold (July 2, 1835, Kővágó-Örs, Zala, Hungary, Austrian Empire – November 9, 1920, New York City, United States) was a Hungarian physician, journalist and composer of chess problems.
He was born into a Jewish family in Kővágóörs, a town located on the shores of Lake Balaton.
Gold published his first chess compositions in the Budapest Vasárnapi Újság and the Wiener Illustrirte Zeitung in 1857.
[2] He arrived in America on December 11, 1892, and immediately published two chess problems in the New York Sun.
He died in Bronx at the age of 85, and was buried (funeral from the chapel of Saul Rothschild, 159 West 120th St.) in the presence of a small group of Hungarian relatives and friends in the evening of November 11, 1920.