# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/azim-premji
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:31:46.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/azim-premji"
name: "Azim Premji"
slug: "azim-premji"
description: "Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the chairman of Wipro. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founding chairman. In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He was listed among the 100 most influential people by Time magazine, in 2004 and 2011. For years, he has been regularly listed one among The 500 Most Influential Muslims. He also serves as the Chancellor of Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Premji was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, by the Government of India."
tagline: "Indian business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Azim_Premji_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2009_(crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1945-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 83
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump