# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/khushwant-singh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:31.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/khushwant-singh"
name: "Khushwant Singh"
slug: "khushwant-singh"
description: "Khushwant Singh FKC was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956, which became his most well-known novel."
tagline: "Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician (1914–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khushwantsingh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-02-02"
deathDate: "2014-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.506088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  234
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump