# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miko-aj-rej
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:50.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miko-aj-rej"
name: "Mikołaj Rej"
slug: "miko-aj-rej"
description: "Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet, prose writer, politician, and musician of the early Polish Renaissance. He was the first major author to write exclusively in the Polish language and is regarded, alongside Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski, as one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature."
tagline: "Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance (1505-1569)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miko%C5%82aj_Rej.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1505-02-04"
deathDate: "1569-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.88
  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.27078133333334
  currentAttention:     6.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Рей, Миколай"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump