# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-wilkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:56.707Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-wilkins"
name: "Charles Wilkins"
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description: "Sir Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and scholar who co-founded The Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of the Bhagavad Gita into English. He supervised Panchanan Karmakar to create one of the first Bengali typefaces. In 1788, Wilkins was elected a member of the Royal Society."
tagline: "British orientalist and typographer"
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birthDate: "1749"
deathDate: "1836-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump