# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ravi-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:25:28.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ravi-shankar"
name: "Ravi Shankar"
slug: "ravi-shankar"
description: "Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar."
tagline: "Indian sitar player (1920–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ravi_Shankar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1920-04-07"
deathDate: "2012-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.558837617755069
  historical:           26.214432
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  167
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.ravishankar.org"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump