Vidyalankara Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao (4 September 1925 – 2 February 2006[2]) was an Indian author, Sanskrit scholar and professor of psychology.

[5][6] Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao was born in a Kannada Madhva Brahmin family[7][8] on September 4, 1925, in Hassan, a small town in South India.

[10] He first worked as a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science and rose to become head of its department of Psychology.

[12] He also created an Indian version of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards and conducted experiments based on them.

[13] He was also instrumental in revising the syllabus that was taught at NIMHANS to include aspects of Indian philosophy that had influenced the study of psychology.