# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-kitingan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:24:35.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeffrey-kitingan"
name: "Jeffrey Kitingan"
slug: "jeffrey-kitingan"
description: "Jeffrey Gapari Kitingan is a Malaysian politician who served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah I from January 2023 to November 2025 and State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of Sabah for a second term from September 2020 to December 2025. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Sabah II from October 2020 to his promotion in January 2023 and the first term in the position in May 2018. In January 2023, he was appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister I of Sabah succeeding Bung Mokhtar, who was dropped due to a political crisis. At the federal level, he served as the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture from March 2020 to his resignation in September 2020 and Deputy Minister of Housing and Local Government from August 1994 to May 1995. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Keningau since May 2018, Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tambunan since May 2018 and Bingkor from 1994 to 2004 and again from May 2013 to May 2018. He has served and been founding President of the Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR), a component party of the ruling Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and a former component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, since July 2016."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeffrey_Kitingan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-10-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.13
  momentum:             7.302631578947366
  historical:           4.427036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "g_kitingan"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jeffreykitinganofficial/"
    handle:    "jeffreykitinganofficial"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/drjeffreygkitingan"
    handle:    "drjeffreygkitingan"
sources:
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    title: "چيفرى كيتينجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jeffrey Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Kitingan"
    title: "Jeffrey Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Kitingan"
    title: "Jeffrey Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ஜெப்ரி கித்திங்கான்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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