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S. Ramachandran

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16882448 ↗
Source-derived summary

S. Ramachandran may refer to:

S. Ramachandran (filmmaker), Indian film journalist and director

S. Ramachandran (scientist) (1934–2016), Indian biotechnologist

S. M. Ramachandran, Indian politician in Tamil Nadu

Srinivasan Ramachandran, Indian bioinformatician

Subramaniam Ramachandran, missing Sri Lankan Tamil journalist

N. S. Ramachandran (1908–?), Indian composer of Carnatic music

Panruti S. Ramachandran (born 1937), Indian politician in Tamil Nadu

V. S. Ramachandran (born 1951), Indian-American neuroscientist

S. Ramachandran Pillai (born 1938), Indian communist politician from Kerala

S. Ramachandran.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 2016, 1908, 1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ramachandran, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “S. Ramachandran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.