List of National University of Singapore people
The National University of Singapore has produced numerous notable alumni including 4 Singapore Presidents and Prime Ministers. This list included those who attended or graduated from the predecessor institutions: King Edward VII College of Medicine, Raffles College and the University of Singapore.
Notable alumni
Business
- Adam Khoo - Best-selling author I am Gifted So Are You; entrepreneur[1]
- Andy Ong - Chief Executive Officer of ERC Group of companies[2]
- Chew Choon Seng - Former Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Chairman of the Singapore Exchange and the Singapore Tourism Board[3]
- Ho Ching - Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings[4]
- Lim Li Kok - founder of Asiapac Books[5]
- Olivia Lum - Chief Executive Officer of Hyflux Group[6]
- Philip Yeo - Chairman of SPRING Singapore[7]
- Dato Sri Tahir - Billionaire and Founder of the Mayapada Group[8]
- Colin Tan - Founder and CEO of Rentlord UK
- Syed Ahmad Alwee Alsree - Group Executive Director of Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad
- Min-Liang Tan - Co-founder and CEO of Razer USA
- Tan Teck Meng - Former Professor of Accounting of Singapore Management University (SMU) and member of the Board of Directors of four public companies in Singapore
- Wong Jeh Shyan - former-CEO of CommerceNet Singapore, co-founder and former CEO of Ecommerce Gateway Pte. Ltd.
Law
- Adrian Tan - Lawyer and Author
- Andrew Ang - Supreme Court Judge[9]
- Andrew Phang - Supreme Court Judge[9]
- Chan Sek Keong - Chief Justice of Singapore
- Davinder Singh - Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier
- Kan Ting Chiu - Former Supreme Court Judge
- Karpal Singh - Malaysian Opposition leader and senior lawyer
- Koh Eng Tian - Former Solicitor-General, Singapore
- Koh Juat Jong - Solicitor-General, Singapore
- K. S. Rajah - Former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Lai Kew Chai - Former Supreme Court Judge
- Sivakant Tiwari - Former Senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service
- Steven Chong - Attorney-General, Singapore
- Sundaresh Menon - Attorney-General, Singapore
- Tan Lee Meng - Supreme Court Judge and former Dean[9]
- Tan Choo Leng - Advocate and solicitor for M/s Wong Partnership
- Tay Yong Kwang - Supreme Court Judge[9]
- V. K. Rajah - Supreme Court Judge[9]
- Walter Woon - David Marshall Professor and former Attorney-General of Singapore
- Woo Bih Li - Supreme Court Judge[9]
Politics and government
- Abdullah Tarmugi - Former Member of Parliament of East Coast GRC
- Abdul Razak Hussein - Second Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Ahmed Inaz - Former Minister of Finance and Treasury of the Maldives
- Alex Au - Gay Rights Activist
- Amy Khor - Minister of State and Mayor of South West District of Singapore
- Aubeck Kam - Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Communications and Information[10]
- Benjamin Sheares - Second President of Singapore
- Chan Heng Chee - Ambassador to United States[11]
- Chay Wai Chuen - High Commissioner to Sri Lanka
- Chen Su Lan - Physician, Philanthropist, Social reformer
- Chia Yong Yong - Singaporean lawyer, disability advocate and a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore
- Cynthia Phua - Former Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC
- Denise Phua - Politician and Disability Rights Activist
- Edmund W. Barker - Former Member of Parliament, politician and lawyer
- Edwin Tong - Politician and Lawyer
- Eunice Olsen - Youngest Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
- Faizah Jamal - Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
- Geh Min - Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
- Goh Chok Tong - Second Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
- Goh Keng Swee - Former Second Deputy Prime Minister
- Grace Fu - Minister in the Prime's Minister's Office, Singapore
- Halimah Yacob - Member of Parliament representing the Jurong GRC
- Ho Geok Choo - Member of Parliament of West Coast GRC
- Ho Peng Kee - Former Member of Parliament for Nee Soon East SMC
- Hon Sui Sen - Former Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance
- Howe Yoon Chong - Former Cabinet Minister
- Hri Kumar Sangaran - Member of Parliament of Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
- Indranee Rajah - Member of Parliament of Tanjong Pagar GRC
- Irene Ng - Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC
- James Gomez - Member of Singapore Democratic Party
- Janadas Devan - Chief of Government Communications at the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts
- Janice Koh - Nominated Member of Parliament
- Jessica Tan - Member of Parliament of East Coast GRC
- Josephine Teo - Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
- K. Shanmugam - Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs, Singapore
- Karpal Singh - Malaysian politician and National Chairman of the Democratic Action Party
- Lam Pin Min - Member of Parliament for Sengkang West SMC
- Lee Yi Shyan - Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC
- Lim Biow Chuan - Member of Parliament for Mountbatten SMC
- Low Thia Kiang - Leader of Worker's Party and Member of Parliament of Aljunied GRC
- Mahathir Mohamad - Physician, later fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Ng Eng Hen - Minister for Defense, Singapore
- Noeleen Heyzer - United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Head of UNIFEM
- Nicole Seah - Member of National Solidarity Party
- Ong Keng Yong - Singapore High Commissioner to Malaysia and former ASEAN Secretary-General
- Ong Soh Khim - Nominated Member of Parliament
- Phay Seng Whatt - Former Chairman of Public Service Commission
- Pritam Singh - Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC
- Rais Yatim - Minister for Information, Communications and Culture, Malaysia
- S Jayakumar - Former Deputy Prime Minister and Co-ordinating Minister for National Security and former Dean
- S.R. Nathan - Former President of Singapore
- Sam Tan (politician) - Member of Parliament (MP) for the Radin Mas SMC
- Sebastian Teo - President of National Solidarity Party
- Sha'ari Tadin - First Malay Member of Parliament
- Simon Tensing de Cruz - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Singapore to the Russian Federation
- Sim Kee Boon - One of Singapore's pioneer civil servant
- Sin Boon Ann - Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC
- Sylvia Lim - Chairman of Worker's Party and Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC
- Steve Chia - Treasurer of National Solidarity Party
- Tan Cheng Bock - Former Member of Parliament
- Tan Chuan-Jin - Minister of State in Singapore
- Tan Soo Khoon - Former Member of Parliament
- Teo Ho Pin - Member of Parliament of Bukit Panjang SMC
- Tin Pei Ling - Member of Parliament
- Toh Chin Chye - Former Deputy Prime Minister
- Tommy Koh - Ambassador-at-Large and Chairman of the NUS Law Advisory Board
- Tony Tan Keng Yam - President of Singapore and former Vice Chancellor of the National University of Singapore
- Wong Kan Seng - former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
- Vanu Gopala Menon - Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations
- Vivian Balakrishnan - Minister for Environment and Water Resources
- Viswa Sadasivan - Nominated Member of Parliament
- Yaacob Ibrahim - Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, also former faculty member
- Yam Ah Mee - Chief Executive Director of the People's Association
- Yaw Shin Leong - Treasurer of Worker's Party
- Yee Jenn Jong - Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) of the 12th Parliament of Singapore
- Yeo Guat Kwang - Member of Parliament
- Zainul Abidin - Former Member of Parliament of Aljunied GRC
Academia and education
- Claudio O. Delang - Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University
- Colin Cheong - Writer, Teacher
- Freddy Boey - Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University
- Harry Aveling - Australian scholar, translator and teacher
- Kishore Mahbubani - Current Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Former President of United Nation's Security Council[12]
- Mary W. S. Wong - Professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New Hampshire
- Nam-Hai Chua - Andrew W. Mellon Professor at Rockefeller University[13]
- Ngiam Tee Liang - Head, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
- Simon Tay - Singaporean professor, author, and former nominated member of Parliament
- Su Guaning - President Emeritus of Nanyang Technological University
- Teck-Hua Ho - William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing, and the Chair of the Marketing Department at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
- Tan Cheng Han - Former Dean of Faculty of Law at National University of Singapore
- Tan Chorh Chuan - President of National University of Singapore
- Tan Eng Chye - Provost at National University of Singapore[14]
- Wang Gungwu - Director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
- Yoke San Reynolds - Former Vice-President of Finance for University of Virginia and Cornell University [15]
Medicine and sciences
- Aloysius Cheang - Managing Director (Asia-Pacific) for the Cloud Security Alliance[16]
- Anthony Yeo - Counselor
- Balaji Sadasivan - Former Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization
- James Seng - Singaporean Internet Pioneer
- Kanwaljit Soin - Consultant Orthopedic & Hand surgeon
- Margaret Chan - Director General of the World Health Organisation
- Miranda Yap - Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- Robert Tan - Physician, Author and Medical Director
- Tien Wong - Unit Head of the Retinal Vascular Imaging Centre (RetVIC) within the Centre for Eye Research Australia
Religion
- Kong Hee - Founder of City Harvest Church
- Lawrence Khong - Senior Pastor of Faith Community Baptist Church (FCBC)
- Robert M. Solomon - Former Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore[17]
Sports
- Jane Lee - First female from Southeast Asia and the 37th woman in history to have scaled the Seven Summits
- Jasmine Ser - Commonwealth Games gold medalist in shooting
- Ng Ser Miang - Vice-President of the International Olympic Committee
- Wong Meng Kong - Singaporean chess Grandmaster
Media and arts
- Abigail Sin - Prodigial Pianist[18]
- Adam Chen - Actor
- Adele Wong - Actress, Screenwriter, Singer
- Alfian Sa'at - Writer, Poet, Playwright
- Andrea Fonseka - Miss Malaysia Universe 2004, Presenter and Actress
- Arthur Yap - Poet and painter
- Boey Kim Cheng - Poet
- Celest Chong - Actress
- Cheryl Marie Cordeiro - Former Miss Singapore
- Chin Han - Actor in The Dark Knight[19]
- Corrinne May - Singaporean Singer
- Cyril Wong - Poet
- Daren Shiau - Writer
- David Loy - American Author
- Desmond Tan - Actor
- Diana Ser - Former Channel NewsAsia presenter
- Eelyn Kok - Actress
- Eleanor Wong - Playwright
- Elvin Ng - Actor
- Felicia Chin - Actress
- Genevieve Woo - News Presenter
- Goh Choo San - Ballet Dancer and Choreographer
- Goh Sin Tub - Writer
- Gwee Li Sui - Poet and Graphic Artist
- Han Sai Por - Singaporean Sculptor
- Haresh Sharma - Playwright
- Ho Ho Ying - Abstract Artist
- Ivan Heng - Actor and Director
- Jacelyn Tay - Actress
- Jeanette Aw - Actress
- J C Sum - Stage Magician
- Jeremiah Choy- Actor and Director
- Kaira Gong - Singer
- Kelvin Tong - Director
- Lee Tzu Pheng - Poet
- Lee Wen - Performance Artist
- Liang Wern Fook - Writer and Musician
- Lin Hsin Hsin - Artist
- Lunarin (all members) - Rock band
- Mei Fong - Pulitzer award winning journalist
- Michelle Chong - Actress
- Namiko Chan Takahashi - Artist
- Nelson Chia - Actor
- Nora Samosir - Actress
- Ong Keng Sen - Singaporean theater director
- Paige Chua - Actress
- Selena Tan - Actress
- Shawn Lee - Actor
- Shi Xin Hui - Singer and Actress
- Stella Huang - Singer
- Su-Chen Christine Lim - Author
- T. Sasitharan - Producer
- Tay Ping Hui - Actor
- Tung Soo Hua - News Anchor
- Wong May - Poet
- Wong Phui Nam - Poet
- Zhang Zhen Huan - Actor
Notable faculty/former faculty
- Adrian David Cheok - Director of the Mixed Reality Lab[21] He is a Full Professor in Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design.[22]
- Andrew Goatly - English language professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong
- Artur Ekert - One of the inventors of quantum cryptography
- Benjamin Batson - Mathematician and historian
- Berthold-Georg Englert - Known for his early work on quantum optics
- C. Northcote Parkinson - Writer of Bestseller Parkinson's Law
- Chan Heng Chee - Former Ambassador to the United States
- Chin Tet Yung - Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRC
- Chin Liew Ten - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
- Chong Chi Tat - Former Chairman of Asia Research Institute
- Chua Beng Huat - Cluster Leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia program at Asia Research Institute
- Colin Sheppard - Former President of the International Society for Optics Within Life Sciences
- D. J. Enright - British Poet
- Edwin Thumboo - Singaporean Poet
- Hassan Farhangi - Known for his work in the development of Canada's first Smart Microgrid
- Henry Ergas - Regulatory economist who has worked at the OECD, Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Group
- Ian Gordon - Historian
- John Lane Bell - Mathematician and philosopher
- John van Wyhe - Historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
- Kofi Annan - Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Lalith Athulathmudali - Sri Lankan politician and former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and deputy minister of defence
- Louis Chen Hsiao Yun - First East Asian to be elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- M. C. Ricklefs - Indoneasian Historian
- Michael Chan, Baron Chan - British Politician, Life peer in the House of Lords
- Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah - Author of The International Law on Foreign Investment, the leading text on this area of the law
- Nalin Mehta - Founding Joint Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal South Asian History and Culture
- Paul Abisheganaden - Conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient
- Paul Theroux - American travel writer and novelist
- Prasenjit Duara - Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore and Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Richard Friend - IEE's Faraday Medal Awardee
- Roy Yorke Calne - British surgeon and pioneer of organ transplantation
- Simon Chesterman - Rhodes Scholar and former "Global Professor and Director" of the Singaporean branch of the NYU School of Law
- Stephanie Wehner - Co-discovered that the amount of non-locality in quantum mechanics is limited by the uncertainty principle[23]
- Susan C. Aldridge - Fifth president of the University of Maryland University College
- Thio Li-ann - Singaporean law professor and nominated member of parliament
- Young-Tae Chang - Chemist
- Wee Teck Gan - Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, known for Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures
References
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- ↑ "Board of Advisors". ERC Institure. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ↑ "Board Of Directors - CVs". Singapore Government. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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- ↑ "Heroes to the rescue". The Star. 9 December 2003.
- ↑ "Board of Directors". Hyflux Group. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
- ↑ "Board of Directors". SPRING Singapore. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Supreme Court : Judges, Judicial Commissioners and Registrars". Supreme Court Singapore. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
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- ↑ "Bishop Dr Robert Solomon re-elected for third term". The Methodist Church in Singapore. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
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