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Ismail Sabri Yaakob

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Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who was the ninth prime minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022, the shortest premiership in the country with a tenure of 15 months. A member of UMNO, he was the only prime minister without a leadership role in the governing party, and the first to born after the country's independence. He is the first opposition leader to become prime minister and also the first to served without a deputy. Prior premiership, he is the shortest-serving deputy prime minister, with a tenure of 40 days. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Ismail Sabri Yaakob is the 12,746th most popular politician (down from 12,151st in 2024), the 28th most popular biography from Malaysia and the 20th most popular Malaysian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 12,746 out of 19,576. Before him are Abu Zakariya Yahya, Tom Thabane, Patriarch Miron of Romania, Ludovic Orban, George Friedman, and Euphemus. After him are Anaxidamus, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Yusuf Lule, Dmytro Kuleba, Günter Verheugen, and Hennadiy Udovenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 194. Before him are Oliver Platt, Elizabeth Perkins, José Peseiro, Roger Marshall, Maryam d'Abo, and Jari Kurri. After him are Oksana Zabuzhko, Bako Sahakyan, Doug Jones, Uwe Bein, Daniel Baldwin, and Arjen Anthony Lucassen.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 28 out of 90. Before him are Soh Chin Ann (1950), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), James Wan (1977), and Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898). After him are Ling Liong Sik (1943), Tsai Ming-liang (1957), Devan Nair (1923), Henry Golding (1987), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), and Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 20. Before him are Yusof Ishak (1910), Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), and Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898). After him are Ling Liong Sik (1943), Devan Nair (1923), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917), Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu (1907), and Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969).

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