# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/faisal-bin-shamlan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:13:55.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/faisal-bin-shamlan"
name: "Faisal Bin Shamlan"
slug: "faisal-bin-shamlan"
description: "Faisal Othman Bin Shamlan was a Yemeni intellectual, technocrat, political reformist and public figure. He was a Yemeni member of parliament who had held the post of Oil and Mineral Resources Minister in the post-unification government of Yemen. Prior to the reunification of Yemen in 1990, Shamlan was the Minister of Infrastructure and Oil in the socialist government of South Yemen. He was the recognized presidential candidate of the Yemeni opposition coalition, a coalition which consists of the Islamist Islah, the Yemen Socialist Party and several smaller parties, in the 2006 presidential election, but was defeated by incumbent president Ali Abdullah Saleh."
tagline: "Yemeni politician (1934-2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Faisal_bin_Shamlan.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1934"
deathDate: "2010-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.86
  momentum:             5.760869565217391
  historical:           5.882326666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Bin_Shamlan"
    title: "Faisal Bin Shamlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B5%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيصل بن شملان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_bin_Schamlan"
    title: "Faisal bin Schamlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Bin_Shamlan"
    title: "Faisal Bin Shamlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ファイサル・ビン・シャムラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_Bin_Shamlan"
    title: "Faisal Bin Shamlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1393511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump