# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wee-cho-yaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:54.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wee-cho-yaw"
name: "Wee Cho Yaw"
slug: "wee-cho-yaw"
description: "Wee Cho Yaw was a Singaporean banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was chairman emeritus and honorary adviser of United Overseas Bank (UOB), and chairman of the UOL Group."
tagline: "Singaporean billionaire (1929–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Wee_Cho_Yaw_signature.svg/330px-Wee_Cho_Yaw_signature.svg.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1929-01-10"
deathDate: "2024-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.522286666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Cho_Yaw"
    title: "Wee Cho Yaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "وى تشو ياو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Cho_Yaw"
    title: "Wee Cho Yaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E7%A5%96%E8%80%80"
    title: "黄祖耀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C_%DA%86%D9%88_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "وی چو یاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%A7_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B2"
    title: "วี โชว เยา"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2484368"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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