George Yeo Yong-Boon (Chinese: 杨荣文; pinyin: Yáng Róngwén; born 13 September 1954) is a Singaporean former politician and brigadier-general who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2004 and 2011.

[2] Upon returning from the United Kingdom, Yeo served as a commissioned officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).

[2] Yeo made his political debut in the 1988 general election as part of a three-member PAP team contesting in the newly created Aljunied GRC and won.

On 5 October 2011, Yeo stepped down from the PAP's Central Executive Committee (the party's governing body).

[11] During his announcement, Yeo stated that he declined running for presidency later that year, cited that he was a "free spirit" and he was not "temperamentally suited for such a job", despite being popular in online and have "a flood of support" on post-election.

[citation needed] Yeo proposed the idea of having Integrated Resorts (IRs) in Singapore, which would include casinos, which was intensely debated for a year.

He later shared with a group of university students during a dialogue that his late father had a problem with gambling and the decision to push for the gaming resorts was personally a very difficult one.

Prior to the 2011 presidential election, Yeo announced that he will make a decision on running for president within 2 weeks, and has asked his friends to pick up eligibility forms on his behalf.

Prior to the 2023 presidential election, Yeo announced on Facebook that he was seriously considering a run for the presidency; he later retracted these statements.

[21] In 2013, Yeo was appointed as a non-official member of the newly established Hong Kong Economic Development Commission.

He was amongst the first lay Catholics appointed by the Vatican to oversee organisational and economic issues faced by the Holy See.

[27] In Singapore, he is also advisor to the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall and Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan, as well as a patron of Lasalle College of the Arts.

[36] As of April 2024, George Yeo owns 400,000 shares in Wilmar International, and was appointed as an independent non-executive director.

[2] In 2004, their youngest son, who has struggled with childhood leukemia since age three, received a bone marrow transplant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

He is a student of tai chi, an internal Chinese martial art, and describes himself as "a bit of a Taoist".