# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saw-ba-u-gyi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:01:24.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saw-ba-u-gyi"
name: "Saw Ba U Gyi"
slug: "saw-ba-u-gyi"
description: "Saw Ba U Gyi was the first President of the Karen National Union. Ba U Gyi graduated with a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in 1925 and studied law in England, passing the English bar in 1927. From 1937 to 1939, he served as the Minister of Revenue of British Burma, and from February to April 1947, as the Minister for Transport and Communications of Burma. He was killed in an ambush by the Burmese Army on 12 August 1950."
tagline: "Burmese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saw_Ba_U_Gyi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
deathDate: "1950-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.11
  momentum:             3.506493506493507
  historical:           7.240068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%8F%E5%B7%B4%E5%90%B4%E5%9F%BA"
    title: "苏巴吴基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_Ba_U_Gyi"
    title: "Saw Ba U Gyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_Ba_U_Gyi"
    title: "Saw Ba U Gyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_Ba_U_Gyi"
    title: "Saw Ba U Gyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_Ba_U_Gyi"
    title: "Saw Ba U Gyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ソー・バウジー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mnw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%85%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%98%E1%80%A5%E1%80%B0%E1%81%90%E1%80%BC%E1%80%B3"
    title: "စောဘဥူၐြဳ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%85%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%98%E1%80%A6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%80%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8"
    title: "စောဘဦးကြီး"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1794631"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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