# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thum-ping-tjin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:52:50.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thum-ping-tjin"
name: "Thum Ping Tjin"
slug: "thum-ping-tjin"
description: "Thum Ping Tjin, also known as PJ Thum, is a Singaporean historian, journalist, podcaster, activist and former swimmer. Thum was a national swimmer who participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was the first Singaporean to swim the English Channel."
tagline: "Singaporean historian and former national swimmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thum_Ping_Tjin_(%22PJ%22)_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.25
  momentum:             10
  historical:           4.664260000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ثوم بينج تجين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thum_Ping_Tjin"
    title: "Thum Ping Tjin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thum_Ping_Tjin"
    title: "Thum Ping Tjin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thum_Ping_Tjin"
    title: "Thum Ping Tjin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%83%E7%82%B3%E9%91%AB"
    title: "覃炳鑫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12006256"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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