# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-s-gill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:42:57.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-s-gill"
name: "M. S. Gill"
slug: "m-s-gill"
description: "Manohar Singh Gill joined public service as an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1958 batch of the Punjab cadre. He served as the Chief Election Commissioner of India (1996–2001), as the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports (2008–2011) and as Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation (2011). His tenure as Election commissioner saw the introduction and implementation of EVMs which saw their first extensive deployment in the 1998 general elections of India."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minister_of_State_for_Youth_Affairs_%26_Sports%2C_Dr._M.S._Gill.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-06-14"
deathDate: "2023-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.04
  momentum:             0.09789156626506025
  historical:           8.448276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump