# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaclav-benda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:01.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaclav-benda"
name: "Václav Benda"
slug: "vaclav-benda"
description: "Václav Benda was a Czech Roman Catholic activist, intellectual and mathematician. Under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, Benda and his wife were rare in that they were devout Roman Catholics among the leadership of the anti-communist dissident organization Charter 77. After the Velvet Revolution, Benda became the head of an organization charged with investigating the former Czechoslovak secret police and their many informants."
tagline: "Czech senator of Czech Parliament, politician and philosopher (1946-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V%C3%A1clav_Benda_-_detail_busty.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-08-08"
deathDate: "1999-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.188118811881188
  historical:           9.414688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Václav Benda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бенда, Вацлав"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump