# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-benes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:46:51.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-benes"
name: "Jan Beneš"
slug: "jan-benes"
description: "Jan Beneš was a Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter. He was also using the pseudonyms Milan Štěpka, Bobisud Mihule, Mojmír Čada, Ing. Čada, JAB, JeBe, Světlana and others. He is an author of many novels and several historical books. He was a political prisoner of the Czechoslovak communist regime, and a Green Beret volunteer. In 1969 Beneš emigrated to United States, after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He served 20 years at the US Department of Defense. He returned to Czech Republic in 1992 after the change of regime."
tagline: "Czech translator and writer (1936-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Bene%C5%A1_(26._b%C5%99ezna_1936_Praha_%E2%80%93_1._%C4%8Dervna_2007_Obo%C5%99i%C5%A1t%C4%9B).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-03-26"
deathDate: "2007-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.77
  momentum:             0.2816901408450704
  historical:           7.669294666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B4_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جان بينش (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B4_(%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%85)"
    title: "جان بينش (مترجم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1_(spisovatel)"
    title: "Jan Beneš (spisovatel)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1_(Schriftsteller%2C_1936)"
    title: "Jan Beneš (Schriftsteller, 1936)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1_(writer)"
    title: "Jan Beneš (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B4_(%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "یان بنش (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1"
    title: "Jan Beneš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Bene%C5%A1"
    title: "Jan Beneš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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