# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiran-bedi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:34.432Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiran-bedi"
name: "Kiran Bedi"
slug: "kiran-bedi"
description: "Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first Indian woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development."
tagline: "First female Indian Police Service Officer (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiran_Bedi_at_the_SWIM_Conference.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "tennis-players"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10833314"
birthDate: "1949-06-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  249
  category: 243
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump