# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yahya-bin-awang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:34.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yahya-bin-awang"
name: "Yahya bin Awang"
slug: "yahya-bin-awang"
description: "Yahya bin Awang is a Malaysian cardiothoracic surgeon; born to the former state governor of Pulau Pinang from 1981 to 1989, Awang Hassan and Khadijah Abdul Rahman, sister of Ismail Abdul Rahman, the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. He performed two coronary artery bypass graft surgeries for Mahathir Mohamad, first in 1989 and another in 2007."
tagline: "Malaysian doctor"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.12
  momentum:             5.560344827586206
  historical:           5.092658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Awang"
    title: "Yahya Awang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "يحيى بن عوانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Awang"
    title: "Yahya Awang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%85%E4%BA%9E%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E6%97%BA"
    title: "雅亞·阿旺"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Awang"
    title: "Yahya Awang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Awang"
    title: "Yahya Awang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8046938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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