# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/t-maheswaran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:33:54.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/t-maheswaran"
name: "T. Maheswaran"
slug: "t-maheswaran"
description: "Thiyagarajah Maheswaran was a Tamil Sri Lankan Member of Parliament (MP) from Colombo. He belonged to the main opposition United National Party and was a critic of Mahinda Rajapakse government's war against Tamil rebels. A former Hindu Affairs minister and a former Member of Parliament for Colombo District, he escaped an assassination attempt on the final day of the 2004 election campaign in Colombo. He was assassinated by a gunman on 1 January 2008 while worshipping at a Hindu temple with his family."
tagline: "Sri Lankan politician (1966-2008)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1966-01-10"
deathDate: "2008-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.79
  momentum:             0.6626506024096387
  historical:           7.873038666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "தியாகராஜா மகேஸ்வரன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Maheswaran"
    title: "T. Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Maheswaran"
    title: "T. Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiyagarajah_Maheswaran"
    title: "Thiyagarajah Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiyagarajah_Maheswaran"
    title: "Thiyagarajah Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiyagarajah_Maheswaran"
    title: "Thiyagarajah Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%9F%E0%A9%80.%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A8"
    title: "ਟੀ.ਮਹੇਸ਼ਵਰਨ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiyagarajah_Maheswaran"
    title: "Thiyagarajah Maheswaran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%93._%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%82%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A"
    title: "ටී. මහේෂ්වරන්"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q660397"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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