# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/korakkar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:47:07.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/korakkar"
name: "Korakkar"
slug: "korakkar"
description: "In the Siddhar tradition of Tamil Nadu, Korakkar is one of the 18 esteemed Siddhars of yore, and is better known as Gorakhnath in North India. Siddhar Agastya and Siddhar Bhogar were his gurus. There is a temple in Vadukku Poigainallur, Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu which specifically houses his Jeeva Samadhi. According to one account, he spent much of his youth in the Velliangiri Mountains, Coimbatore."
tagline: "Siddhar in Tamil tradition"
gender: "male"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           40.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.881498666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "कोराकर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%B0"
    title: "কোৰাক্কাৰ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korakkar"
    title: "Korakkar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Кораккар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC"
    title: "കോരക്കാർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "கோரக்கர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6431369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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