# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdo-ivanek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:35.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdo-ivanek"
name: "Ferdo Ivanek"
slug: "ferdo-ivanek"
description: "Ferdo Ivanek was an American electrical engineer of Yugoslav origin. He is best known for his contributions to microwave oscillators and amplifiers. He is the father of the American actor Željko Ivanek."
tagline: "American electrical engineer (1923–2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Ferdo_Ivanek.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-06-01"
deathDate: "2021"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             0.218978102189781
  historical:           1.555257333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdo_Ivanek"
    title: "Ferdo Ivanek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110979649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations