# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/goparaju-ramachandra-rao
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:55:15.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/goparaju-ramachandra-rao"
name: "Goparaju Ramachandra Rao"
slug: "goparaju-ramachandra-rao"
description: "Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, popularly known as Gora, was an Indian social reformer, atheist activist and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He authored many books on atheism and proposed atheism as self-confidence. He propagated positive atheism by his articles, speeches, books and his social work. He is the founder of Atheist Centre along with his wife Saraswathi Gora and a few volunteers. Social reformer G. Lavanam, politician Chennupati Vidya, and physician G. Samaram are his children."
tagline: "Indian activist (1902-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stamp_of_India_-_2002_-_Colnect_158264_-_Social_Reformers_-_Gora.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-11-15"
deathDate: "1975-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://heritage.humanists.uk/gora-1902-1975/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump