# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/khaw-boon-wan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:32:52.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/khaw-boon-wan"
name: "Khaw Boon Wan"
slug: "khaw-boon-wan"
description: "Khaw Boon Wan is a Malaysian-born Singaporean former politician who served as Minister for Transport between 2015 and 2020, Minister for National Development between 2011 and 2015, and Minister for Health between 2003 and 2011. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Moulmein division of Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 2001 and 2006, and the Sembawang division of Sembawang GRC between 2006 and 2020."
tagline: "Former Singaporean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Minister_Khaw_Boon_Wan.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.82
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.181501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ministerkhawboonwan"
    handle:    "ministerkhawboonwan"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AE%B8%E6%96%87%E8%BF%9C"
    title: "许文远"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan"
    title: "Khaw Boon Wan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan"
    title: "Khaw Boon Wan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan"
    title: "Khaw Boon Wan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan"
    title: "Khaw Boon Wan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaw_Boon_Wan"
    title: "Khaw Boon Wan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DA%BE%D8%A7%D8%A4_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کھاؤ بون وان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354964"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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