# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gopalkrishna-gandhi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T09:20:48.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gopalkrishna-gandhi"
name: "Gopalkrishna Gandhi"
slug: "gopalkrishna-gandhi"
description: "Gopalkrishna Devadas Gandhi is a former administrator and diplomat who served as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji). As a former IAS officer he served as Secretary to the President of India and as High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka, among other administrative and diplomatic posts. He was the United Progressive Alliance nominee for Vice President of India in the 2017 vice-presidential elections and lost with 244 votes against NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu, who got 516 votes."
tagline: "Indian civil servant and diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gopalkrishna_Gandhi_at_Jaipur_Literature_Festival_2026_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             4.70227187664621
  historical:           13.74602666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump