Shinawatra
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The Shinawatra family is a wealthy and powerful ethnic Chinese family in Thailand. Below is a list of prominent family members.
- Seng Sae KhuSeng Sae KhuSeng Sae Khu or Khu Chun Seng was a great-great-grandfather of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.Khu was a Hakka Chinese immigrant from Fengshun, Meizhou, Guangdong. He arrived in Siam in the 1860s. In 1908, he settled in Chiang Mai. He married a Thai woman named Sangdi...
, Hakka Chinese immigrant to Thailand who made a fortune through various businesses. Following the 1938 anti-Chinese campaigns, his son changed his surname to Shinawatra. The rest of the family followed suit. - Thaksin ShinawatraThaksin ShinawatraThaksin Shinawatra is a Thai businessman and politician, who was Prime Minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006, when he was overthrown in a military coup....
(born 1949), former telecommunications billionaire, former Thai Prime Minister; great-grandson of Seng Sae Khu - Yingluck ShinawatraYingluck ShinawatraYingluck Shinawatra , or nickname Pu , is a Thai businesswoman and politician, member of the Pheu Thai Party, and the 28th Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 general election...
(born 1967), current Prime MinisterPrime Minister of ThailandThe Prime Minister of Thailand is the head of government of Thailand. The Prime Minister is also the chairman of the Cabinet of Thailand. The post has existed since the Revolution of 1932, when the country became a constitutional monarchy....
of ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, and Thaksin's sister. - Potjaman ShinawatraPotjaman ShinawatraKhunying Potjaman Na Pombejra , formerly Potjaman Shinawatra and born as Soypetpotjaman Damapong , , is the ex-wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Potjaman played a key role in the development of Thaksin's commercial enterprises in the 1980s...
(born 1956), former wife of Thaksin Shinawatra - Panthongtae ShinawatraPanthongtae ShinawatraPanthongtae Shinawatra , nickname Oak, is the only son of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.He became a billionaire after having been given a large portion of his father's stock in Shin Corporation which transferred to him shortly before Thaksin ascended to the position of prime...
(born 1979), Thaksin Shinawatra's son, businessman - Chaiyasit ShinawatraChaiyasit ShinawatraChaiyasit Shinawatra is a former commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army. As a cousin of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, his unexpected appointment was criticised as an act of nepotism....
, former commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army