# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gopal-krishna-pillai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:54:47.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gopal-krishna-pillai"
name: "Gopal Krishna Pillai"
slug: "gopal-krishna-pillai"
description: "Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer and the former Home Secretary in the Government of India. He was born into a Nair family in Kerala. He was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, and at the St. Joseph's College, Bangalore. He then obtained an M.Sc from IIT Madras. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S."
tagline: "Indian civil servant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_Special_Secretary%2C_Department_of_Commerce%2C_Shri_G.K._Pillai_at_the_inauguration_of_a_National_Seminar_on_Government_Procurement%2C_jointly_organised_by_the_Department_of_Commerce_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.415696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  247
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جوبال كريشنا بيلاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal_Krishna_Pillai"
    title: "Gopal Krishna Pillai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal_Krishna_Pillai"
    title: "Gopal Krishna Pillai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A3_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%88"
    title: "गोपाल कृष्ण पिल्लई"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B7%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A3_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%88"
    title: "கோபால் கிருஷ்ண பிள்ளை"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1537769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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