# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-akbar-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:48:00.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-akbar-khan"
name: "Ali Akbar Khan"
slug: "ali-akbar-khan"
description: "Ali Akbar Khan was an Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he also composed numerous classical ragas and film scores. He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which moved with him to the United States and is now based in San Rafael, California, with a branch in Basel, Switzerland."
tagline: "Hindustani musician (1922–2009)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-04-14"
deathDate: "2009-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             25
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  sourceConfidence:     70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump