# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mani-shankar-mukherjee
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:30:30.407Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mani-shankar-mukherjee"
name: "Mani Shankar Mukherjee"
slug: "mani-shankar-mukherjee"
description: "Mani Sankar Mukherjee, commonly known by his pen name Sankar in both Bengali- and English-language literature, was an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He grew up in Debdoot Sheet Nagar in Howrah of West Bengal."
tagline: "Bengali writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mani_Shankar_Mukherjee_-_Kolkata_2014-02-07_8511.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-12-07"
deathDate: "2026-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.893162666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611539/"
    handle:    "nm0611539"
sources:
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC"
    title: "মণিশংকর মুখোপাধ্যায়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Sankar_Mukherjee"
    title: "Mani Sankar Mukherjee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%B0_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC"
    title: "মণিশংকৰ মুখোপাধ্যায়"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankar_(writer)"
    title: "Sankar (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%96%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "മണിശങ്കർ മുഖോപാധ്യായ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4614819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1831773"
    title: "Mani Shankar Mukherjee"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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