# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-van-aken-q107176
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:20:20.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-van-aken-q107176"
name: "Jan van Aken"
slug: "jan-van-aken-q107176"
description: "Jan Paul van Aken is a German biologist and politician. He has been co-leader of The Left since October 2024 and a member of the German Bundestag since 2025, a position he held previously from 2009 to 2017."
tagline: "German politician and biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irak-Konferenz_der_Fraktion_DIE_LINKE._im_Bundestag_Foto_Uwe_Steinert_(8568691944).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1961-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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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