# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanjay-thumma
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:45:35.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanjay-thumma"
name: "Sanjay Thumma"
slug: "sanjay-thumma"
description: "Sanjay Thumma popularly known as Vah-Chef, is an Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur, restaurateur and television personality. He is the founder of the cooking website, vahrehvah.com. He is especially popular among the Indian-expatriate communities across the world, especially for his unique comedic style. He became known for his online recipe channel on YouTube, which he started in 2007, with over 750 million views. He is one of the three judges in the first season of MasterChef India – Telugu."
tagline: "Indian chef"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sanjay_Thumma%2C_The_Vah_Chef.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1970-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.85
  momentum:             4.761904761904761
  historical:           5.100758666666667
  currentAttention:     26.45502645502645
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 165
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.vahrehvah.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%A5%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "संजय थुम्मा"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "سانجاى ثوما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Thumma"
    title: "Sanjay Thumma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Thumma"
    title: "Sanjay Thumma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Thumma"
    title: "Sanjay Thumma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "తుమ్మా సంజయ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7418487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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