# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/palghat-mani-iyer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:37:29.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/palghat-mani-iyer"
name: "Palghat Mani Iyer"
slug: "palghat-mani-iyer"
description: "Palghat T. S. Mani Iyer (1912–1981), born Thiruvilvamala Ramaswamy was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music. He, along with his contemporaries Palani Subramaniam Pillai and Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy, are revered as the \"Holy Trinity of Mrudangam\". Mani Iyer was the first mridangist to be awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi (1966) presented by the Music Academy of Madras, the Padma Bhushan (1971) and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards(1956) presented by the Government of India."
tagline: "Indian musician (1912-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Palghat_Mani_Iyer_(Cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1912-06-12"
deathDate: "1981-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             0.7643884892086331
  historical:           7.309758666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump