S. N. Subba Rao (7 February 1929 – 27 October 2021) was a fellow of the Gandhi Peace Foundation and founder of National Youth Project.

[2] Salem Nanjundaiah Subba Rao was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, on 7 February 1929.

He was arrested when aged 13 for daubing slogans in support of the Quit India movement.

Subba Rao set up the Mahatma Gandhi Sewa Ashram in the Chambal valley of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to rehabilitate dacoits that infested the region.

By his calculations, as many as 654 dacoits, many of them contemporaries of Man Singh, surrendered to him between 1960 and 1976.