# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bhanu-athaiya
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:34:50.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bhanu-athaiya"
name: "Bhanu Athaiya"
slug: "bhanu-athaiya"
description: "Bhanu Athaiya was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award. Alongside being Bollywood's most iconic costume designer, she had a historically important early career as an artist with contemporaries like M. F. Husain, F. N. Souza and Vasudeo S. Gaitonde. She was the only woman member of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. Two of Bhanu Rajopadhye's artworks were included in the 1953 Progressive Artists' Group show in Bombay."
tagline: "Indian costume designer and painter (1929–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bhanu_Athaiya.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1929-04-28"
deathDate: "2020-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump