# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rakesh-sharma
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:02:51.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rakesh-sharma"
name: "Rakesh Sharma"
slug: "rakesh-sharma"
description: "Rakesh Sharma is an Indian cosmonaut and a pilot of the Indian Air Force. He became the first Indian to travel to outer space, when he flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme."
tagline: "First Indian astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rakesh_Sharma.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
profileType:
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  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1949-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.094986807387865
  historical:           23.50244133333334
  currentAttention:     33.86103781882147
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump