# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-chin-koon
# Generated: 2026-09-02T19:29:11.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-chin-koon"
name: "Lee Chin Koon"
slug: "lee-chin-koon"
description: "Lee Chin Koon was a Singaporean storekeeper, manager, and salesman who was formerly employed with the Shell Oil Company. Prominently, he was the father of Lee Kuan Yew and the paternal grandfather of Lee Hsien Loong, the first and third Prime Minister of Singapore respectively."
tagline: "Shopkeeper born 1903; father of Lee Kuan Yew"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Lee_Chin_Koon_and_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_1925.jpg/330px-Lee_Chin_Koon_and_Lee_Kuan_Yew%2C_1925.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1903"
deathDate: "1997-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.55
  momentum:             0.7535927094286716
  historical:           1.643781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Chin_Koon"
    title: "Lee Chin Koon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75977812"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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