# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/asaram
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:02:23.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/asaram"
name: "Asaram"
slug: "asaram"
description: "Asumal Sirumalani Harpalani, known by devotees as Asaram, is an Indian spiritual leader and convicted rapist, who started to come into the limelight in the early 1970s. By 2013, he was estimated to have established over 400 ashrams and 40 schools in India and abroad."
tagline: "Indian Spiritual Guru"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Asharam_ji_Bapu_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Asharam_ji_Bapu_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.021539902334604
  historical:           10.846956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.ashram.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump