# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-v-vigneswaran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:55:54.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-v-vigneswaran"
name: "C. V. Vigneswaran"
slug: "c-v-vigneswaran"
description: "Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Vigneswaran, PC is a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, judge, politician and Member of Parliament. After practising law for more than 15 years, Vigneswaran was a member of the judiciary for 25 years. He was a magistrate and a judge of the District Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He was Chief Minister of the Northern Province from October 2013 to October 2018. He was elected to the Parliament of Sri Lanka in August 2020. Vigneswaran is leader of the Tamil People's Alliance and the Tamil People's National Alliance."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician, judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C._V._Vigneswaran.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.63
  momentum:             1.048780487804878
  historical:           5.282974666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "C. V. Vigneswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سى. ڤى. ڤيجنيسواران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Vigneswaran"
    title: "C. V. Vigneswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "க. வி. விக்னேஸ்வரன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canagasabapathy_Visuvalingam_Vigneswaran"
    title: "Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Vigneswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%93._%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%93._%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%82%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A"
    title: "සී. වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන්"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13917862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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