# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-vakarcuk
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:34.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-vakarcuk"
name: "Ivan Vakarčuk"
slug: "ivan-vakarcuk"
description: "Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk was a Ukrainian and Soviet physicist, academic leader, and politician, who contributed to science policy and civil society. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. He received the Hero of Ukraine award on 5 March 2007. He was father of the leader of the rock band Okean Elzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk."
tagline: "Ukrainian physicist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D1%83%D0%BA_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1947-03-06"
deathDate: "2020-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           10.79359733333333
  currentAttention:     13.05483028720627
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0van_Vakar%C3%A7uk"
    title: "İvan Vakarçuk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump