# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ved-prakash-goyal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:17:57.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ved-prakash-goyal"
name: "Ved Prakash Goyal"
slug: "ved-prakash-goyal"
description: "Ved Prakash Goyal was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of Shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001 to 2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. Piyush Vedprakash Goyal, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles in the Government of India is the son of Ved Prakash Goyal."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Vedprakash_Goyal.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1926"
deathDate: "2008-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.01
  momentum:             3.837499109876807
  historical:           2.262964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ved_Prakash_Goyal"
    title: "Ved Prakash Goyal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B2"
    title: "वेद प्रकाश गोयल"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7917878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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