# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-pozniak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:36:50.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-pozniak"
name: "Jan Poźniak"
slug: "jan-pozniak"
description: "Jan Pazniak was a Belarusian politician and publisher, serving as the chairman of the Vilnius Belarusian National Committee in the 1930s. He was arrested by the NKVD in October 1939 at the start of World War II and was probably shot dead by them in Minsk. He was the grandfather of Zianon Pazniak."
tagline: "Belarusian journalist (1895—1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Po%C5%BAniak.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1895-02-19"
deathDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.274802666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pazniak"
    title: "Jan Pazniak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BA"
    title: "Ян Пазьняк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BA"
    title: "Ян Пазняк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_Po%C5%BAniak"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Po%C5%BAniak"
    title: "Jan Poźniak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BA%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Позняк, Ян Александрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1979101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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