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{{short description|Indian footballer}}
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{{Infobox football biography
|name           = Dharmalingam Kannan
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|caption        = 
|fullname       = 
|birth_date     = {{birth date|1936|7|8|df=yes}}
|birth_place    = [[Secunderabad]], India
|death_date     = {{death date and age|2006|5|19|1936|7|8|df=yes}}
|death_place    = Hyderabad, India
|nationalteam1  = [[India national football team|India]]
| position = [[Forward_(association_football)#Centre-forward|Centre forward]]
}}

'''Dharmalingam Kannan''' (8 July 1936 &ndash; 19 May 2006) was an Indian [[association football|footballer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25809 |title=Dharmalingam Kannan |work=Olympedia |accessdate=14 November 2020}}</ref> He competed in the [[Football at the 1960 Summer Olympics|men's tournament]] at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/dharmalingam-kannan-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418094739/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/dharmalingam-kannan-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Dharmalingam Kannan Olympic Results |access-date=16 October 2018}}</ref>

Kannan played for [[Andhra Pradesh football team|Hyderabad]] from 1956 to 1958 and Bengal from 1959. He represented India in the [[1958 Asian Games]]. He was employed with the Vehicle Depot, [[Secunderabad]] but moved to [[SC East Bengal|East Bengal]]<ref>Profiles of the Indian football team in the 1960 Olympics, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19600722&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 22 July 1960, Indian Express]</ref>

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