# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philemon-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:32.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philemon-yang"
name: "Philémon Yang"
slug: "philemon-yang"
description: "Philémon Yunji Yang is a Cameroonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Cameroon from 2009 to 2019, having previously held various ministerial and diplomatic roles particularly in Canada where he served as the ambassador of Cameroon to Canada for over 20 years. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Cameroonian history, having served 9 years, 9 months, and 3 days. From 2024 to 2025 he served as President of the United Nations General Assembly for its seventy-ninth session."
tagline: "Cameroonian politician, former Prime minister of Cameroon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philemon_Yang%2C_Prime_Minister_of_Cameroon_in_London%2C_21_June_2010._(4720521915)_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.03285317159464241
  historical:           20.47625333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philemon Yang"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philémon Yang"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Філемон Янг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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