# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-martin-jirous
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:17:16.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-martin-jirous"
name: "Ivan Martin Jirous"
slug: "ivan-martin-jirous"
description: "Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime. He is more frequently known as Magor, which can be roughly translated as \"shithead\", \"loony\", or \"fool\", a nickname given to him by the experimental poet Eugen Brikcius."
tagline: "Czech poet (1944–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_M_Jirous2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-09-23"
deathDate: "2011-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.853658536585366
  historical:           14.74254933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0423203"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump