# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rana-bhagwandas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:02:05.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rana-bhagwandas"
name: "Rana Bhagwandas"
slug: "rana-bhagwandas"
description: "Rana Bhagwandas was a Pakistani jurist who served as a judge and acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP). He enjoyed extremely high reputation as a judge. He remained the acting CJP during the 2007 judicial crisis in Pakistan, and also briefly became the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan when the incumbent Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry went on foreign tours in 2005 and 2006, and thus became the first Hindu and the second non-Muslim to serve as chief of the highest court in Pakistan. Rana Bhagwandas also worked as the Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. He headed the interview panel for the selection of the federal civil servants in 2009."
tagline: "Pakistani judge"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Rana_Bhagwandas.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1942-12-20"
deathDate: "2015-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.37
  momentum:             12.98071163292201
  historical:           9.318794666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رانا بھگوان داس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "রাণা ভগবানদাস"
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    title: "ਰਾਣਾ ਭਗਵਾਨਦਾਸ"
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    title: "راݨا بھگوان داس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump