# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-santosh-babu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:41:04.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/b-santosh-babu"
name: "B. Santosh Babu"
slug: "b-santosh-babu"
description: "Colonel Bikkumalla Santosh Babu was an Indian Army officer and the commanding officer of 16 Bihar Regiment. He was killed in action (KIA) during the 2020 China–India skirmishes, the first Indian Armed Forces commissioned officer since 1967 and among the first Indian soldiers to have been KIA against the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) since 1975. He was posthumously decorated with India's second-highest wartime gallantry award, the Maha Vir Chakra."
tagline: "Indian Army officer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/B._Santosh_Babu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1982"
deathDate: "2020-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.375078666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "B. Santosh Babu"
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    title: "బి. సంతోష్ బాబు"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump