# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/swami-rama
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:29:14.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/swami-rama"
name: "Swami Rama"
slug: "swami-rama"
description: "Swami Rama was an Indian yoga guru. He moved to the US in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. He became famous for his ability to control his body in yoga nidra, writing many books including the autobiographical Living with Himalayan Masters. From the 1970s onwards, there were persistent allegations of sexual abuse of his followers; in 1997 a woman won a lawsuit against him for multiple sexual assaults."
tagline: "Indian yogi (1925–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/SwamiRamaImg.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925"
deathDate: "1996-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.64922266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm16965550"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump