# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-medek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:11.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-medek"
name: "Ivan Medek"
slug: "ivan-medek"
description: "Ivan Medek was a Czech classical music critic, radio broadcaster and journalist. Medek was an important voice of the Czech anti-communist opposition movement, particularly after being forced into exile from Czechoslovakia in 1978. Medek collaborated closely with such Czechoslovak politicians as Václav Havel and Pavel Tigrid in opposition to communist rule."
tagline: "Czech publicist (1925-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan-Medek.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1925-07-13"
deathDate: "2010-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             3.157894736842104
  historical:           8.736357333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ايڤان ميديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Ivan Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Ivan Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Ivan Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%AF%DA%A9"
    title: "ایوان مدک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Ivan Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Медек, Иван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Medek"
    title: "Ivan Medek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Іван Медек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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