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Vikram Sampath is an Indian popular historian and columnist, who is noted for writing biographies of Gauhar Jaan, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Mysore Kings.

Sampath started his career in finance. He published a history of the Wadiyar Dynasty of Mysore in 2008, and a biography of Gauhar Jaan in 2012. In 2013, Sampath left his job at Hewlett-Packard to obtain a PhD in ethnomusicology and history at the University of Queensland, Australia. He wrote a two-part biography of V. D. Savarkar that received praise for its thorough detail but was criticised for its uncritical treatment of the subject. In September 2021, Sampath was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

In 2022, some academics accused Sampath of plagiarism, providing examples of near-identical reproduction of other authors' works in his corpus. Sampath denied the allegations and initiated a lawsuit.