Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who was the ninth prime minister of Malaysia from 2021 to 2022, the shortest premiership in the country with a tenure of 15 months. A member of UMNO, he was the only prime minister without a leadership role in the governing party, and the first who was born after the country's independence. He is the first opposition leader to become prime minister and also the first to serve without a deputy. Prior to his premiership, he is the shortest-serving deputy prime minister, with a tenure of 40 days.

Born in Pahang, Ismail started his career as a laywer. He became active in UMNO before entering the Parliament of Malaysia as the Member of Parliament for Bera in 2004. Currently, he is the Division Chief of Bera of UMNO, a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He also served as the vice president of UMNO from June 2018 to March 2023. As a result from the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as prime minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin.