# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wee-chong-jin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:25:34.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wee-chong-jin"
name: "Wee Chong Jin"
slug: "wee-chong-jin"
description: "Wee Chong Jin was a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as a chief justice of Singapore for 27 years, from 1963 to 1990, where he was the first Asian lawyer appointed as a judge to head the Supreme Court of Singapore, and the longest-serving chief justice in the Commonwealth."
tagline: "Singaporean judge (1917–2005)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917-09-28"
deathDate: "2005-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.169477333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%AE%97%E4%BB%81"
    title: "黃宗仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC_%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "وى تشونج چين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Chong_Jin"
    title: "Wee Chong Jin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Chong_Jin"
    title: "Wee Chong Jin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8_%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Ви Чон Джин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B5_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87_%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99"
    title: "วี ชอง จิน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Chong_Jin"
    title: "Wee Chong Jin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7979278"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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