# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-kong-chian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:16.529Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-kong-chian"
name: "Lee Kong Chian"
slug: "lee-kong-chian"
description: "Tan Sri Dato' Lee Kong Chian, also known by his alias Lee Geok Kun, was a prominent Chinese Singaporean businessman and philanthropist based in Malaya and Singapore between the 1930s and the 1960s. He was the founder of the Lee Foundation and one of the richest men in Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a son-in-law of Tan Kah Kee, another well-known Chinese businessman and philanthropist based in Southeast Asia. He is affectionately known today as the \"founding father\" of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation."
tagline: "Singaporean businessman (1893-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Kong_Chian%2C_1946.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1893-10-18"
deathDate: "1967-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.393242666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kong_Chian"
    title: "Lee Kong Chian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kong_Chian"
    title: "Lee Kong Chian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kong_Chian"
    title: "Lee Kong Chian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%85%89%E5%89%8D_(1893%E5%B9%B4)"
    title: "李光前 (1893年)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AD_Kong-chi%C3%A2n"
    title: "Lí Kong-chiân"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%85%89%E5%89%8D"
    title: "李光前"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3847031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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