# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-kolaja
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:37.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-kolaja"
name: "Marcel Kolaja"
slug: "marcel-kolaja"
description: "Marcel Kolaja is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a former Czech Pirate Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024 and Quaestor of the European Parliament from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs. In 2025, he joined Access Now as their Policy and Advocacy Director for Europe."
tagline: "Czech computer specialist, activist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcel_Kolaja_4_January_2021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1980-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             6.209912536443148
  historical:           7.412456000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/piratkolaja"
    handle:    "piratkolaja"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/kolajamarcel/"
    handle:    "kolajamarcel"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/PiratKolaja"
    handle:    "PiratKolaja"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.kolaja.eu/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E5%A1%9E%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%A7%91%E6%8B%89%E4%BA%9A"
    title: "马塞尔·科拉亚"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "مارسيل كولاجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Kolaja"
    title: "Marcel Kolaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1485198"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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