# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bishnu-charan-ghosh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:28:04.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bishnu-charan-ghosh"
name: "Bishnu Charan Ghosh"
slug: "bishnu-charan-ghosh"
description: "Bishnu Charan Ghosh was an Indian bodybuilder and Hathayogi. He was the younger brother of yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, who wrote the 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi. In 1923, he founded the College of Physical Education, Calcutta. His writings influenced the development of modern yoga as exercise in India and Bikram Choudhury founded Bikram Yoga based on his teachings."
tagline: "Indian bodybuilder and Hathayogi (1903–1970)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Bishnu_Charan_Ghosh.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1903-06-24"
deathDate: "1970-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.38
  momentum:             7.132867132867134
  historical:           5.510082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  191
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Charan_Ghosh"
    title: "Bishnu Charan Ghosh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "বিষ্ণুচরণ ঘোষ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Charan_Ghosh"
    title: "Bishnu Charan Ghosh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%88_%DA%86%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%AF%DA%BE%D9%88%D8%B4"
    title: "بشنو چرن گھوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishnu_Ghosh"
    title: "Bishnu Ghosh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%83_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%88"
    title: "Бишну Чаран Гош"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q866309"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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