# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-c-patil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:49:07.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/b-c-patil"
name: "B. C. Patil"
slug: "b-c-patil"
description: "Basavanagowda Channabasavanagowda Patil is an Indian actor-turned-politician and former police officer. He has served as Minister of State for Agriculture in Karnataka between 2020 and 2023. Patil is a three-term member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elected from Hirekerur. Serving with the Karnataka State Police from 1979 to 2002, Patil has also direted and produced Kannada films apart from acting in them."
tagline: "Indian politician and film actor/director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B.C._Patil_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             7.212614445574771
  historical:           4.927578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4739821/"
    handle:    "nm4739821"
sources:
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    title: "பி. சி. பாட்டீல்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بى. سى. پاتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "B. C. Patil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%80.%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%80._%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "బీ.సీ. పాటిల్"
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    title: "بی سی پاٹل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1343086"
    title: "B. C. Patil"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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