# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yen-teh-fa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:58:40.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yen-teh-fa"
name: "Yen Teh-fa"
slug: "yen-teh-fa"
description: "Yen Teh-fa is a Taiwanese politician and retired general of the ROC Army who has served as the minister of the Veterans Affairs Council since 2024. His ancestral home was in Nanjing. He was previously the Minister of National Defense and the secretary-general of the National Security Council. He was the chief of the general staff of the ROC armed forces from 30 January 2015 until 1 December 2016. He was the vice minister for armaments of the National Defense Ministry (MND) from 9 August 2013 until 15 January 2014."
tagline: "Taiwanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yen_Teh-fa_%E5%9A%B4%E5%BE%B7%E7%99%BC_(20170525_%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E7%AB%AF%E7%AF%80%E6%85%B0%E5%8B%89%E6%86%B2%E5%85%B5_211%E3%80%81332_%E7%87%9F_00%EF%BC%9A01%EF%BC%9A36).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.879452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yen_Teh-fa"
    title: "Yen Teh-fa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yen_Teh-fa"
    title: "Yen Teh-fa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nghi%C3%AAm_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_Ph%C3%A1t"
    title: "Nghiêm Đức Phát"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9A%B4%E5%BE%B7%E7%99%BC"
    title: "嚴德發"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yen_Teh-fa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15914789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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