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Ling Liong Sik

1943 - Today

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Ling Liong Sik (simplified Chinese: 林良实; traditional Chinese: 林良實; pinyin: Lín Liángshí; Foochow Romanized: Lìng Liòng-sĭk; born 18 September 1943) is a retired Malaysian politician. He was the sixth president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition and also the former Malaysian Minister for Transport. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak filed the suit against Ling Liong Sik on 2015, alleging that Ling had made libellous remarks against him in an article carried on a news portal.He is the current chancellor and former chairman of the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ling Liong Sik has received more than 154,025 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ling Liong Sik is the 12,872nd most popular politician (down from 12,016th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Malaysia (down from 24th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Malaysian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ling Liong Siks by language

Over the past year Ling Liong Sik has had the most page views in the with 21,995 views, followed by Chinese (21,872), and Malay (12,325). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (45.07%), Catalan (38.92%), and Vietnamese (30.06%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ling Liong Sik ranks 12,872 out of 19,576. Before him are Publius Servilius Casca, Tibor Szamuely, Sankhenre Sewadjtu, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Jules Malou, and Cem Özdemir. After him are Ian Paisley, Carlo I Tocco, José Miró Cardona, Carl Christian Hall, Juraj Dobrila, and Eduard Kokoity.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ling Liong Sik ranks 368. Before him are Arturo Ripstein, Eberhard Vogel, Katherine Karađorđević, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Crescenzio Sepe, and Kenichi Ohmae. After him are Héctor Chumpitaz, Brian Ferneyhough, Leonid Ivashov, Michael Morpurgo, Boediono, and John Draper.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Ling Liong Sik ranks 29 out of 90. Before him are Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898), Tsai Ming-liang (1957), Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ismail Sabri Yaakob (1960), and Putra of Perlis (1920). After him are Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), Mokhtar Dahari (1953), Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor (1958), Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (1953), and Sharafuddin of Selangor (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Ling Liong Sik ranks 22. Before him are Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898), Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ismail Sabri Yaakob (1960), and Putra of Perlis (1920). After him are Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (1953), Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (1931), Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917), and Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu (1907).

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