# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-s-l-narasimhan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:10:24.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-s-l-narasimhan"
name: "E. S. L. Narasimhan"
slug: "e-s-l-narasimhan"
description: "Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan is an Indian former civil servant and politician who served as the first Governor of Telangana. He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 8 December 2009 until 23 July 2019 making him the longest-serving governor of the state. Later he took on 2 June 2014 as the 1st Governor of Telangana as additional charge. A retired Indian Police Service officer, he previously served as the director of the Intelligence Bureau from February 2005 to December 2006. He also served as the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009. Narasimhan served as governor for 12 years making him the longest-serving governor in India."
tagline: "First Governor of Telangana and bifurcated Andhra Pradesh"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/E._S._L._Narasimhan_at_the_valedictory_function_of_the_World_Telugu_Conference.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1945-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump