# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yeoh-tiong-lay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:14:04.894Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yeoh-tiong-lay"
name: "Yeoh Tiong Lay"
slug: "yeoh-tiong-lay"
description: "Yeoh Tiong Lay was a Malaysian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded YTL Corporation, Malaysia's largest conglomerate, with interests in construction, utilities, hotels, property development and technology. YTL is based primarily in Malaysia but has extensive operations in Asia, Australia and the United Kingdom, where it owns the utility Wessex Water."
tagline: "Malaysian businessman (1929–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yeoh_Tiong_Lay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1929-12-18"
deathDate: "2017-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.206292313819196
  historical:           7.977006666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "یئو تیونگ لای"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump