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Ismail Sabri Yaakob

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Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022. He is both the shortest-serving prime minister (served for 15 months) and the shortest-serving deputy prime minister (served for 40 days). He is also the first prime minister born after the independence of Malaya, the first former Leader of the Opposition to become prime minister, the only prime minister who did not hold the highest position of the governing party or coalition, and the only prime minister to serve without a deputy. A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004, Ismail is the Division Chief of Bera of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ismail Sabri Yaakob is the 12,736th most popular politician (down from 12,157th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Malaysia and the 20th most popular Malaysian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 12,736 out of 19,576. Before him are Abu Zakariya Yahya, Tom Thabane, Patriarch Miron of Romania, Ludovic Orban, George Friedman, and Euphemus. After him are Anaxidamus, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Yusuf Lule, Dmytro Kuleba, Günter Verheugen, and Hennadiy Udovenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 187. Before him are Oliver Platt, Elizabeth Perkins, José Peseiro, Roger Marshall, Maryam d'Abo, and Jari Kurri. After him are Oksana Zabuzhko, Bako Sahakyan, Doug Jones, Uwe Bein, Daniel Baldwin, and Arjen Anthony Lucassen.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 28 out of 90. Before him are Soh Chin Ann (1950), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), James Wan (1977), and Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898). After him are Ling Liong Sik (1943), Tsai Ming-liang (1957), Devan Nair (1923), Henry Golding (1987), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), and Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917).

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Among POLITICIANS In Malaysia

Among politicians born in Malaysia, Ismail Sabri Yaakob ranks 20. Before him are Yusof Ishak (1910), Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930), Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan (1922), and Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898). After him are Ling Liong Sik (1943), Devan Nair (1923), Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu (1962), Yahya Petra of Kelantan (1917), Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu (1907), and Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969).

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