# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kwek-leng-beng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:01:36.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kwek-leng-beng"
name: "Kwek Leng Beng"
slug: "kwek-leng-beng"
description: "Kwek Leng Beng is a Singaporean businessman. He is the executive chairman of City Developments Limited (CDL) and Hong Leong Group Singapore, the latter being a diversified conglomerate founded by his father in 1941. Under his leadership, CDL expanded globally through major hotel acquisitions, including The Gloucester and New York's Millennium Hotel, and held an 80% stake in the Plaza Hotel with Saudi investor Al Waleed bin Talal in 1995. He merged CDL's hotel chains into Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, which became the first Singapore-based company with primary listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1996."
tagline: "Singaporean businessman"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.32
  momentum:             2.628205128205128
  historical:           6.219121333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E4%BB%A4%E6%98%8E"
    title: "郭令明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "كويك لينج بينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwek_Leng_Beng"
    title: "Kwek Leng Beng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwek_Leng_Beng"
    title: "Kwek Leng Beng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%DA%A9_%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "کووک لنگ بنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwek_Leng_Beng"
    title: "Kwek Leng Beng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%8A%E0%B8%81_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%87_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87"
    title: "เกว๊ก เล็ง เบ่ง"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8963128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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