# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yashwant-sinha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:38:13.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yashwant-sinha"
name: "Yashwant Sinha"
slug: "yashwant-sinha"
description: "Yashwant Sinha is an Indian politician and retired Indian Administrative Service officer. He served as the Minister of Finance from 1990 until 1991 under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar and again from March 1998 to July 2002 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He also served as the Minister of External Affairs from July 2002 until May 2004. He was a senior leader of the BJP before he left the party on 21 April 2018. In 2022, he was the Presidential candidate of India for the opposition."
tagline: "Indian administrator and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yashwant_Sinha_IMF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump