# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/udaya-kumar-dharmalingam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:51:30.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/udaya-kumar-dharmalingam"
name: "Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam"
slug: "udaya-kumar-dharmalingam"
description: "Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam is an Indian academic and designer noted for his design of the Indian rupee sign. His design was selected from among five short listed symbols. According to Kumar, the design is based on the Indian tricolour."
tagline: "Indian academic and designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Udaya_Kumar(designer).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump