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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. She is the first female president in Singapore's history.A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), Halimah was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bukit Batok East division of Jurong GRC between 2001 and 2015, and the Marsiling division of Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC between 2015 and 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halimah Yacob has received more than 3,037,551 page views. Her biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Halimah Yacob is the 841st most popular politician (up from 2,194th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Halimah Yacobs by language

Over the past year Halimah Yacob has had the most page views in the with 525,544 views, followed by Arabic (65,203), and Indonesian (64,716). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Mongolian (1,473.81%), Simple English (255.04%), and Nepali (129.75%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Halimah Yacob ranks 841 out of 19,576. Before her are Chlothar I, Raymond Poincaré, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Alfonso XII of Spain, Hezekiah, and Cassander. After her are Imad ad-Din Zengi, Aurangzeb, Shoshenq I, Anastasius I Dicorus, Viktor Orbán, and Georges Clemenceau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Halimah Yacob ranks 11. Before her are Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Hugo Chávez, Shinzō Abe, Alexander Lukashenko, and Viktor Yushchenko. After her are James Cameron, Sócrates, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Emir Kusturica, Jean-Claude Juncker, and Mario Kempes.

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In Singapore

Among people born in Singapore, Halimah Yacob ranks 2 out of 42. Before her are Lee Kuan Yew (1923). After her are Tony Tan (1940), Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Goh Chok Tong (1941), Parameswara (1344), S. R. Nathan (1924), Vanessa-Mae (1978), Wu Lien-teh (1879), Wee Kim Wee (1915), Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1957), and Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952).

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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 Tony Tan (1940), Lee Hsien Loong (1952), Goh Chok Tong (1941), Parameswara (1344), S. R. Nathan (1924), Wee Kim Wee (1915), Tharman Shanmugaratnam (1957), Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (1952), Ho Ching (1953), and Benjamin Sheares (1907).

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