# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lim-kim-san
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:50:52.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lim-kim-san"
name: "Lim Kim San"
slug: "lim-kim-san"
description: "Lim Kim San was a Singaporean businessman, civil servant, and politician who served as a Cabinet minister with a variety of portfolios between 1965 and 1981. Prior to his tenure as a member of parliament, Lim was appointed chairman of Singapore's newly created Housing & Development Board (HDB), and he would go on to be recognized for the HDB's success in its resolution of Singapore's housing shortage."
tagline: "Member of the Parliament of Singapore and Cabinet of Singapore (1916-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Lim_Kim_San_in_the_1940s.jpg/330px-Lim_Kim_San_in_the_1940s.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1916-11-30"
deathDate: "2006-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             3.776420854861438
  historical:           5.572254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Kim_San"
    title: "Lim Kim San"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ليم كيم سان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ليم كيم سان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1"
    title: "林金山"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Kim_San"
    title: "Lim Kim San"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لم کم سان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1577210"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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