# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syed-hamid-albar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:07:12.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/syed-hamid-albar"
name: "Syed Hamid Albar"
slug: "syed-hamid-albar"
description: "Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar is a Malaysian lawyer and politician who has served as 1st Chancellor of the Asia e University (AeU) since October 2022. He served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Minister of Justice, Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Home Affairs in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Ministers Mahathir Mohamad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi from October 1990 to April 2009. He also served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kota Tinggi from November 1990 to May 2013. He was a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) and formerly Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalitions. Prior to that, he was also a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the ruling BN coalition. He retired from politics in February 2022 and left UMNO for BERSATU in September 2018. He had also served as the Chairman of Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) which was already dissolved."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Halbar.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1944-01-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.68
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.233264
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%9B%E5%93%88%E5%AF%86"
    title: "赛哈密"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "سيد هاميد البار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hamid_Albar"
    title: "Syed Hamid Albar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hamid_Albar"
    title: "Syed Hamid Albar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hamid_Albar"
    title: "Syed Hamid Albar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hamid_Albar"
    title: "Syed Hamid Albar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hamid_Albar"
    title: "Syed Hamid Albar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Хамід Албар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176113"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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