# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaacob-ibrahim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:57:36.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaacob-ibrahim"
name: "Yaacob Ibrahim"
slug: "yaacob-ibrahim"
description: "Yaacob bin Ibrahim is a Singaporean former People's Action Party politician who served as minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs between 2002 and 2018, minister for community development, youth and sports between 2002 and 2004, minister for the environment and water resources between 2004 and 2011, minister for communications and information between 2011 and 2018, and minister-in-charge of cyber security between 2015 and 2018. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Kolam Ayer division of Jalan Besar GRC between 1997 and 2020."
tagline: "Singaporean politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yaacob_Ibrahim%2C_Singapore_-_20060722.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1955-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.491542666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/YaacobIbrahim"
    handle:    "YaacobIbrahim"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacob_Ibrahim"
    title: "Yaacob Ibrahim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "يعقوب ابراهيم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacob_Ibrahim"
    title: "Yaacob Ibrahim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%85%E5%9B%BD"
    title: "雅国"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacob_Ibrahim"
    title: "Yaacob Ibrahim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacob_Ibrahim"
    title: "Yaacob Ibrahim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7463219"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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