# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/markandey-katju
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:50.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/markandey-katju"
name: "Markandey Katju"
slug: "markandey-katju"
description: "Markandey Katju is an Indian jurist and a former judge of Supreme Court of India. He also was chairman of the Press Council of India from 2011 to 2014. He is the son of politician Shiva Nath Katju and grandson of Kailash Nath Katju. He is the founder and patron of the Indian Reunification Association (IRA), an organisation that advocates for the peaceful reunification of what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh with India under a secular government."
tagline: "Indian judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Markandey_Katju_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1946-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.972661333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://justicekatju.blogspot.in"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump