# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-madhavan-nair
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:45:50.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-madhavan-nair"
name: "G. Madhavan Nair"
slug: "g-madhavan-nair"
description: "G. Madhavan Nair is an Indian space scientist and a former chairman of ISRO, and Secretary to the Department of Space, Government of India. His tenure saw commencement of Indian Human Spaceflight Programme and launch of extraterrestrial exploration mission Chandrayaan-I."
tagline: "Indian aerospace engineer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1943-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump