# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/devi-lal-samar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:00:41.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/devi-lal-samar"
name: "Devi Lal Samar"
slug: "devi-lal-samar"
description: "Devi Lal Samar was an Indian puppeteer who was the founder-director of a folk-theatre museum called the Bharatiya Lok Kala Mandal in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He was awarded Padma Shri for his outstanding work. He wrote several books in Hindi about Rajasthani theatre and puppetry."
tagline: "Indian puppeteer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_statue_of_Devi_Lal_Samar_at_the_entrance_of_Bharatiya_Lok_Kala_Mandal_(Indian_Public_Society_for_Arts)_in_Udaipur_City%2C_Rajasthan_State%2C_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1912"
deathDate: "1981-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             20.0561797752809
  historical:           5.071490666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  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