# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/v-sivakumar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:46:39.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/v-sivakumar"
name: "V. Sivakumar"
slug: "v-sivakumar"
description: "Sivakumar s/o Varatharaju Naidu, better known as V. Sivakumar, is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Batu Gajah since May 2013. He served as the Minister of Human Resources in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim from December 2022 to December 2023 and Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tronoh from March 2008 to May 2013. He also served as Speaker of the assembly from April 2008 to May 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He has also served as the Deputy Secretary-General of DAP since November 2017. He was also the sole Cabinet minister of the Indian ethnicity prior to the 2023 cabinet reshuffle."
tagline: "Malaysian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V._Sivakumar_2023(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             0.345489443378119
  historical:           4.619404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivakumar_Varatharaju"
    title: "Sivakumar Varatharaju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Sivakumar"
    title: "V. Sivakumar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivakumar_Varatharaju"
    title: "Sivakumar Varatharaju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "வி. சிவகுமார்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%8D%8E%E5%8F%A4%E7%8E%9B"
    title: "西华古玛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7906250"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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