# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-k-narayanan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:06:46.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-k-narayanan"
name: "M. K. Narayanan"
slug: "m-k-narayanan"
description: "Mayankodu Kelath Narayanan is a retired IPS officer who served as the National Security Adviser of India from 2005 to 2010, assuming the role after the demise of his predecessor Jyotindra Nath Dixit in January 2005. Subsequently, he served as 19th Governor of West Bengal from 2010 to 2014. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1992."
tagline: "Governor of West Bengal, a state in Eastern India"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1934-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  146
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump