# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-wnek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:00.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-wnek"
name: "Jan Wnęk"
slug: "jan-wnek"
description: "Jan Wnęk was a Polish carver of religious statues who is claimed to have constructed and flown a glider (aircraft) in the 1860s, predating the flights of Otto Lilienthal. There is a speculative \"reconstruction\" of Wnek's glider in the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków."
tagline: "Polish aviation pioneer (1828-1869)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Jan_Wnek_Model.jpg/330px-Jan_Wnek_Model.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1828-08-28"
deathDate: "1869-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.01
  momentum:             4.792899408284023
  historical:           5.684666666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wn%C4%99k"
    title: "Jan Wnęk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wn%C4%99k"
    title: "Jan Wnęk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%92%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%BA"
    title: "Γιαν Βνεκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wn%C4%99k"
    title: "Jan Wnęk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wn%C4%99k"
    title: "Jan Wnęk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%83%8D%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ヤン・ヴネンク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1447200"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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