# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aparna-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:09:39.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aparna-rao"
name: "Aparna Rao"
slug: "aparna-rao"
description: "Aparna Rao was a German anthropologist who performed studies on social groups in Afghanistan, France, and some regions of India. Her doctorate studies focused on anthropogeography, ethnology, and Islamic studies. Rao taught anthropology at the University of Cologne, serving for a brief time as chair of the Department of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany."
tagline: "German anthropologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Aparna_Rao_%28anthropologist%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-02-03"
deathDate: "2005-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.338517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Aparna Rao"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "اپارنا راو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aparna_Rao"
    title: "Aparna Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aparna_Rao"
    title: "Aparna Rao"
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    title: "آپارنا رائو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5"
    title: "अपर्णा राव"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aparna_Rao"
    title: "Aparna Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93356657"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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