# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/syed-hussein-alatas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:03:06.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/syed-hussein-alatas"
name: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
slug: "syed-hussein-alatas"
description: "Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Syed_Hussein_al-Attas.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1924-09-17"
deathDate: "2007-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.14
  momentum:             1.550094517958412
  historical:           6.599321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "حسين العطاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hussein_Alatas"
    title: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
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    title: "سید حسین العطاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hussein_Alatas"
    title: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Hussein_Alatas"
    title: "Syed Hussein Alatas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7660347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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