# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/u-v-swaminatha-iyer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:06:56.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/u-v-swaminatha-iyer"
name: "U. V. Swaminatha Iyer"
slug: "u-v-swaminatha-iyer"
description: "U.V. Swaminatha Iyer was a Tamil scholar and researcher who was instrumental in bringing many long-forgotten works of classical Tamil literature to light. His singular efforts over five decades brought to light major literary works in Tamil and contributed vastly to the enrichment of its literary heritage. Iyer published over 90 books in his lifetime, on a variety of matters connected to classical Tamil literature, and collected over 3,000 paper manuscripts, palm-leaf manuscripts and notes of various kinds."
tagline: "Tamil scholar, researcher and publisher of classical Tamil literature"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/U._V._Swaminatha_Iyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1855-02-19"
deathDate: "1942-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.27
  momentum:             1.538461538461538
  historical:           4.438664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "యు. వి. స్వామినాథ అయ్యర్"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump