# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-matijevic
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:20:37.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-matijevic"
name: "Jacob Matijevic"
slug: "jacob-matijevic"
description: "Jacob Richard Matijevic, also known as \"Jake\" Matijevic, was an American NASA engineer of Croatian origin who worked on Mars Exploration Rovers. Dr. Matijevic was involved in developing the \"Sojourner\", \"Spirit\", \"Opportunity\" and \"Curiosity\" rovers. For his contributions to the rover projects, NASA named several landmarks on the planet Mars after him."
tagline: "Croatian-born NASA engineer (1947-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Matijevic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-11-03"
deathDate: "2012-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.36
  momentum:             0.4964539007092199
  historical:           6.338661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Матиевич, Джейкоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "جاكوب ماتيجيفيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matijevic"
    title: "Jacob Matijevic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matijevic"
    title: "Jacob Matijevic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matijevic"
    title: "Jacob Matijevic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matijevic"
    title: "Jacob Matijevic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matijevic"
    title: "Jacob Matijevic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71120"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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