# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tan-kok-wai
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:20:25.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tan-kok-wai"
name: "Tan Kok Wai"
slug: "tan-kok-wai"
description: "Tan Kok Wai is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheras since April 1995. He served as the Special Envoy of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to China from August 2018 to March 2020 as well as the MP for Sungai Besi from August 1986 to April 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition, and served as its 1st Advisor from March 2020 to March 2025, and previously as its 4th National Chairman from March 2014 to March 2022. He also serves as the 1st Chairman of the Federal Territories Pakatan Harapan. Currently serving his 9th term as an MP, he is the most senior MP in the 15th Malaysian Parliament and the longest-serving active MP after Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah lost the reelection in 2022."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Tan_Kok_Wai.jpg/330px-Tan_Kok_Wai.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.43
  momentum:             0.2477477477477477
  historical:           5.499426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/mptankokwai"
    handle:    "mptankokwai"
sources:
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Kok_Wai"
    title: "Tan Kok Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "تان كوك واي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Kok_Wai"
    title: "Tan Kok Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E5%9B%BD%E4%BC%9F_(%E9%A9%AC%E6%9D%A5%E8%A5%BF%E4%BA%9A)"
    title: "陈国伟 (马来西亚)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Kok_Wai"
    title: "Tan Kok Wai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "டான் கோக் வேய்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7682080"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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