# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janos-starker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:01:26.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janos-starker"
name: "János Starker"
slug: "janos-starker"
description: "János Starker was a Hungarian-American cellist. From 1958 until his death, he taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the title of Distinguished Professor. Starker is considered one of the greatest cellists of all time."
tagline: "Hungarian-American cellist (1924–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%A1nos_Starker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-07-05"
deathDate: "2013-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7520891364902508
  historical:           18.857924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump