# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-c-dvorak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:51:33.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-c-dvorak"
name: "John C. Dvorak"
slug: "john-c-dvorak"
description: "John C. Dvorak is an American writer and broadcaster in the areas of technology and personal computing. He has been a columnist for multiple magazines since the 1980s and has written or co-authored over a dozen how-to books on software and technology. He was vice president of Mevio, and has been a host on TechTV and TWiT.tv. He is currently a co-host of the No Agenda podcast."
tagline: "US journalist and radio broadcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_C._Dvorak.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1952-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.84
  momentum:             9.206642066420663
  historical:           6.245761333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/THErealDVORAK"
    handle:    "THErealDVORAK"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dvorak.org/blog/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون س. ديفوراك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3._%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83"
    title: "جون س. ديفوراك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak"
    title: "John C. Dvorak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak"
    title: "John C. Dvorak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak"
    title: "John C. Dvorak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6224391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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