# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/prithviraj-chavan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:12:56.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/prithviraj-chavan"
name: "Prithviraj Chavan"
slug: "prithviraj-chavan"
description: "Prithviraj Dajisaheb Chavan is an Indian politician who was the 17th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014. Chavan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering. He spent time working in the field of aircraft instrumentation and designing audio recorders for anti-submarine warfare in the US before returning to India and becoming an entrepreneur in 1974. Referred to in the media as a technocrat with a clean, non-controversial image, a low-profile leader. Chavan served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions. Chavan was also General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC), in-charge of many states, including Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Haryana, Gujarat, Tripura, and Arunachal Pradesh."
tagline: "Politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prithviraj_Chavan_-_India_Economic_Summit_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946-03-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           5.159022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump