K N RAO is an Indian Vedic astrologer. His full name is Kotamraju Narayana Rao, he belongs to the Brahmin family of Andhra Pradesh. He was the second child out of four children of K R Rao, who was an eminent journalist during the independence period. K N Rao’s elder brother Pratap Rao was posted in the Foreign Service and his younger brother Vikram Rao was the President of the All India Working Journalists Association. His youngest brother retired as a bank manager and later joined the prestigious quarterly “Journal of Astrology”.

K N Rao was personally very educated. He did his Masters in English Literature, and later he joined the Indian Audit and Accounts Service. K N Rao was an English language lecturer before joining it. He retired as Director-General in 1990.