Ram Chandra OAM BEM (given name: Edward Royce Ramsamy) was a snake showman in Australia.
He was known as Australia's "taipan man" and for his work in extracting snake venom to create antivenoms.
In 1951 he successfully milked a taipan, and in 1955 he attempted to make his own antivenom, unsuccessfully experimenting on a kangaroo rat.
Following this, his doctor, Dr Chenoweth, arranged for venom Chandra had milked to be freeze-dried and sent to the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories.
By mid 1955, CSL had made an antivenom available, and it saved the life of Bruce Stringer, a Cairns schoolboy.