Fabiano Caruana is an American chess grandmaster, born on 30 July 1992 in Miami, Florida. He earned the grandmaster title in 2007 at the age of 14. His highest FIDE standard rating, 2844, was reached on the October 2014 list, shortly after he won the 2014 Sinquefield Cup with a tournament performance rating of 3098.

Caruana won the 2018 Candidates Tournament and challenged Magnus Carlsen for the world title that year, losing in rapid tiebreaks after twelve drawn classical games. He has won the Tata Steel Masters (2020), Norway Chess (2018), the overall Grand Chess Tour in 2023 and 2025, and the US Championship five times. He was part of the US team that won the 2016 Chess Olympiad.