# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-yeang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:48:00.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-yeang"
name: "Ken Yeang"
slug: "ken-yeang"
description: "Ken Yeang is a Malaysian architect, ecologist, planner and author, noted for his work in ecological architecture and eco-masterplanning. Since the early 1970s he has developed an approach to design grounded in ecology and environmental sustainability. In 2008, The Guardian included him in its list of \"50 people who could save the planet\". Yeang’s architectural practice, Hamzah & Yeang, is based in Kuala Lumpur, with associated offices in London as Llewelyn Davies Ken Yeang Ltd. and in Beijing as the North Hamzah Yeang Architectural and Engineering Company."
tagline: "Architect"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.091398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hasrat_hati_memeluk_gunung%2C_apa_daya_tangan_tak_sampai"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كين يانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yeang"
    title: "Ken Yeang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yeang"
    title: "Ken Yeang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yeang"
    title: "Ken Yeang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yeang"
    title: "Ken Yeang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Еанг, Кен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Yeang"
    title: "Ken Yeang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%8A%E7%B6%93%E6%96%87"
    title: "楊經文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522879"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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