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Halimah Yacob

1954 - Today

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Halimah Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who served as the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023. Halimah won in the 2017 presidential election in an uncontested walkover due to ineligible candidates. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halimah Yacob has received more than 3,051,880 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Halimah Yacob is the 2,201st most popular politician (up from 3,322nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Singapore and the 2nd most popular Singaporean Politician.

Halimah Yacob is most famous for being the first female president of Singapore.

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  • 3.1M

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  • 64.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Halimah Yacob ranks 2,201 out of 15,577. Before her are Herod Agrippa II, Stanley Baldwin, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Louis Blanc, Yaropolk I of Kiev, and Aurelius Victor. After her are Theuderic III, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Arthur Liebehenschel, Sophie of France, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, and George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Halimah Yacob ranks 21. Before her are Shinzō Abe, Jean-Claude Juncker, Dieter Bohlen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Abdul Rashid Dostum, and Ang Lee. After her are Stieg Larsson, Mario Kempes, Andrej Babiš, Annie Lennox, Serzh Sargsyan, and Fernando Santos.

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In Singapore

Among people born in Singapore, Halimah Yacob ranks 2 out of 35. Before her are Lee Kuan Yew (1923). After her are Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Parameswara (1344), Goh Chok Tong (1941), Tony Tan (1940), S. R. Nathan (1924), Vanessa-Mae (1978), Wee Kim Wee (1915), Ong Teng Cheong (1936), Benjamin Sheares (1907), and Julia Nickson (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In Singapore

Among politicians born in Singapore, Halimah Yacob ranks 2. Before her are Lee Kuan Yew (1923). After her are Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Parameswara (1344), Goh Chok Tong (1941), Tony Tan (1940), S. R. Nathan (1924), Wee Kim Wee (1915), Benjamin Sheares (1907), Ho Ching (1953), Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952), and David Marshall (1908).

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