# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raja-ramanna
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:35:43.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raja-ramanna"
name: "Raja Ramanna"
slug: "raja-ramanna"
description: "Raja Ramanna was an Indian nuclear physicist. He was the director of India's nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which culminated in Smiling Buddha, India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974."
tagline: "Indian nuclear scientist (1925-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/D_Roopa_IPS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-01-28"
deathDate: "2004-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump