# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-sokol
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:26:36.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-sokol"
name: "Jan Sokol"
slug: "jan-sokol"
description: "Jan Sokol was a Czech philosopher, dissident, politician and translator. He briefly served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 1998 under Prime Minister Josef Tošovský. From 1990 to 1992, he was Member of Parliament for Prague. From 2000 to 2007, he served as the first dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague. Sokol ran for President of the Czech Republic in the 2003 election but lost to Václav Klaus."
tagline: "Czech philosopher (1936–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Sokol.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-04-18"
deathDate: "2021-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump