# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-mela
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:43:23.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-mela"
name: "Jan Mela"
slug: "jan-mela"
description: "Jan \"Jasiek\" Mela is a Polish explorer who, as a teenage double amputee, was the youngest person to reach the North Pole in 2004, and eight months later the South Pole. He created the Foundation \"Poza horyzonty\" Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine."
tagline: "Polish explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Mela.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1988-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.47
  momentum:             0.7621951219512194
  historical:           5.823770666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.pozahoryzonty.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mela"
    title: "Jan Mela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F"
    title: "Ян Меля"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mela"
    title: "Jan Mela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F"
    title: "Ян Меля"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mela"
    title: "Jan Mela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8F%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD"
    title: "Мэля, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974712"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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