# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dhirubhai-thaker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:06:56.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dhirubhai-thaker"
name: "Dhirubhai Thaker"
slug: "dhirubhai-thaker"
description: "Dhirubhai Premshankar Thaker was an Indian Gujarati writer, who was best known for creating the Gujarati Vishwakosh, a 25-volume encyclopaedia of the Gujarati language."
tagline: "Indian Gujarati language author (1918-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Dhirubhai_Thakar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-06-27"
deathDate: "2014-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.537509333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Thaker"
    title: "Dhirubhai Thaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%A7%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%AD%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%88_%E0%AA%A0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%95%E0%AA%B0"
    title: "ધીરુભાઈ ઠાકર"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "धीरूभाई ठाकर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "திருபாய் தாக்கர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2761802"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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