# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-jayakumar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:09:22.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-jayakumar"
name: "S. Jayakumar"
slug: "s-jayakumar"
description: "Shunmugam Jayakumar is a Singaporean former politician, diplomat, jurist and author who served as the 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2004 and 2009. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedok Constituency between 1980 and 1988, the Bedok division of Bedok Group Representation Constituency (GRC) between 1988 and 1997, and the Bedok division of East Coast GRC between 1997 and 2011."
tagline: "Singaporean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jayakumar_(1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1939-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             6.576
  historical:           6.874592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%BE%E5%8F%A4%E7%8E%9B"
    title: "贾古玛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3._%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "اس. چاياكومار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunmugam_Jayakumar"
    title: "Shunmugam Jayakumar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Jayakumar_(Singaporean_politician)"
    title: "S. Jayakumar (Singaporean politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunmugam_Jayakumar"
    title: "Shunmugam Jayakumar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunmugam_Jayakumar"
    title: "Shunmugam Jayakumar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunmugam_Jayakumar"
    title: "Shunmugam Jayakumar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "சண்முகம் ஜெயக்குமார்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1521378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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