# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/braj-kachru
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:58:09.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/braj-kachru"
name: "Braj Kachru"
slug: "braj-kachru"
description: "Braj Bihari Kachru was an Indian-American linguist. He was Jubilee Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He published studies on the Kashmiri language."
tagline: "Indian linguist (1932-2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Braj_Kachru.png/330px-Braj_Kachru.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-05-15"
deathDate: "2016-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.037037037037037
  historical:           7.026604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ブラジ・カチュル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "براچ كاتشرو"
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    title: "برج کاچرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braj_Kachru"
    title: "Braj Kachru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braj_Kachru"
    title: "Braj Kachru"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC_%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%86%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "برج کاچرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%9C_%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%82"
    title: "ब्रज काचरू"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braj_Kachru"
    title: "Braj Kachru"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1172852"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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