# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bangalore-gundappa-lakshminarayana-swamy
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:18:45.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bangalore-gundappa-lakshminarayana-swamy"
name: "Bangalore Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy"
slug: "bangalore-gundappa-lakshminarayana-swamy"
description: "Bengaluru Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy was an Indian botanist and Kannada writer who was professor, head of the botany department and principal of Presidency College, Chennai. He was the son of D. V. Gundappa, an Indian philosopher and writer in the Kannada language."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d7/Bglswamy.jpg/330px-Bglswamy.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-02-05"
deathDate: "1980-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.284964241117039
  historical:           4.894818666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump