# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-j-v-chelvanayakam
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:27:40.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-j-v-chelvanayakam"
name: "S. J. V. Chelvanayakam"
slug: "s-j-v-chelvanayakam"
description: "Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam was a Ceylonese lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament. He was the founder and leader of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) and Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and a political leader of the Ceylon Tamil community for more than two decades. Chelvanayakam has been described as a father figure to Ceylon's Tamils, to whom he was known as \"Thanthai Chelva\"."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1898-1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%88_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1898-03-31"
deathDate: "1977-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.44
  momentum:             0.4765506807866869
  historical:           4.64986
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam"
    title: "S. J. V. Chelvanayakam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam"
    title: "S. J. V. Chelvanayakam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam"
    title: "S. J. V. Chelvanayakam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._J._V._Chelvanayakam"
    title: "S. J. V. Chelvanayakam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சா. ஜே. வே. செல்வநாயகம்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump