# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-pairin-kitingan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:34:22.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-pairin-kitingan"
name: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
slug: "joseph-pairin-kitingan"
description: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan is a Malaysian politician who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Sabah from April 1985 to March 1994 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Keningau from August 1986 to May 2018. He is founding President of the United Sabah Party (PBS) and brother of Jeffrey Kitingan, the Deputy Chief Minister I and State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of Sabah and President of Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) as well as uncle of Maximus Ongkili, the former Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Sabah and Sarawak affairs and former President of PBS. He is the longest-serving MP in Sabah."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Penampang_Sabah_Joseph-Pairin-Kitingan-02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.31
  momentum:             2.636033857315599
  historical:           7.03762
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/100005703373157"
    handle:    "100005703373157"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BE%E6%9E%97%E5%90%89%E4%B8%81%E5%B2%B8"
    title: "百林吉丁岸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوزيف پايرين كيتينجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pairin_Kitingan"
    title: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pairin_Kitingan"
    title: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pairin_Kitingan"
    title: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pairin_Kitingan"
    title: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pairin_Kitingan"
    title: "Joseph Pairin Kitingan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ஜோசப் பைரின் கித்திங்கான்"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q551372"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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