# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thambi-ramaiah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:43:07.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thambi-ramaiah"
name: "Thambi Ramaiah"
slug: "thambi-ramaiah"
description: "Thambi Ramaiah is an Indian actor, director and comedian who works in the Tamil film industry. He has also worked occasionally as a music director and lyricist. He directed three films, Manu Needhi (2000), Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan (2008) and Maniyaar Kudumbam (2018). He has won one National Film Award, two SIIMA Awards, two Tamil Nadu State Film Award and one Filmfare Award South in his career."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thambi_Ramaiah_Exclusive_Photos_for_Silverscreen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1956-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.11
  momentum:             0.4080583821564395
  historical:           6.964536
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4446366/"
    handle:    "nm4446366"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3c9a7dd0-207f-49c7-961f-983b39a34cba"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%89_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "ثامبى راماياه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thambi_Ramaiah"
    title: "Thambi Ramaiah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "تامبی رامایاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thambi_Ramaiah"
    title: "Thambi Ramaiah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "தம்பி ராமையா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF"
    title: "తంబి రామయ్య"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DA%BE%D9%85%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "تھمبی رمایا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7709824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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