# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tarika-banu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:44:25.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tarika-banu"
name: "Tarika Banu"
slug: "tarika-banu"
description: "Grace Banu is an Indian software engineer who is a Dalit and transgender activist. She was the first transgender person to be admitted to an engineering college in the state of Tamil Nadu. She lives in the Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu."
tagline: "Indian student; daughter of activist Grace Banu"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Grace_Banu_1.jpg/330px-Grace_Banu_1.jpg"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           12.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.200072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharika_Banu"
    title: "Tharika Banu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%8B"
    title: "ਤਾਰਿਕਾ ਬਾਨੋ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48973077"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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