# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/velupillai-prabhakaran
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:16:26.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/velupillai-prabhakaran"
name: "Velupillai Prabhakaran"
slug: "velupillai-prabhakaran"
description: "Velupillai Prabhakaran was an Eelam Tamil revolutionary, guerrilla leader and a major figure of Tamil nationalism, being the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government. Under his direction, the LTTE undertook a military campaign against the Sri Lankan government for more than 25 years."
tagline: "Founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization in Sri Lanka (1954-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prabhakaran_2_by_Rajasekharan_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1954-11-26"
deathDate: "2009-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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