List of Singaporean Indians
This is a list of notable Singaporean Indians.
Academicians
- Kishore Mahbubani
- Shan Ratnam - professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore
- Abhimanyu Goel - Researcher and architect
Actors, actresses and models
- Dalreena Poonam Gill - winner of Miss World Singapore (2014); Singapore football referee
- Gurmit Singh - popular actor, host and comedy performer; best known for his role in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd
- Kumar - comedian, television host, actor, and drag queen
- Michelle Saram
- Nuraliza Osman - beauty queen who represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 2002
- Pilar Arlando - Miss Singapore World for 2009-2010
- Rathi Menon - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2014
Arts and entertainment
- Haresh Sharma - Singaporean playwright
- Neila Sathyalingam - Singaporean classical Indian dancer
- T. Sasitharan
Businessmen
- G. Ramachandran
- Naraina Pillai - social entrepreneur and businessman; spent most of his life in Singapore during the colonial period; of Tamil origins, he greatly contributed to the Tamil community in Singapore
- Thomas Thomas
Criminals
- Gaiyathiri Murugayan, Singaporean maid abuser and killer who was serving 30 years in prison for abusing and killing her Myanmar maid.
- Julaiha Begum, wife of murdered ex-cop T Maniam who was executed in 2001 for instigating her husband's murder.
- Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, an army lance corporal sentenced to death for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece in 1977
- Mathavakannan Kalimuthu, Singaporean convicted murderer who was granted clemency by then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong and placed under life imprisonment.
- Maniam Rathinswamy and S. S. Asokan, the two security guards responsible for killing a loan shark. Both were executed in 1995.
- Nadarajah Govindasamy, a businessman executed in 1977 for killing the fiancé of his daughter
- Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi, a 20-year-old unemployed man who murdered a jogger at Punggol Field. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment and fifteen strokes of the cane.
- Shanmugam Murugesu, a drug trafficker and former sports athele who was executed in 2005
- Somasundarajoo s/o Vengdasalam, Somasundram s/o Subramaniam and Ponapalam s/o Govindasamy, the three Indians who were among the eighteen rioters hanged for killing four prison officers during the Pulau Senang riots
- Vasavan Sathiadew, who killed his foster brother for having an affair with Vasavan's wife
- S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, a lorry driver hanged for killing a prison warden
- Saminathan Subramaniam, a convicted criminal jailed for manslaughter
- Tangaraju Suppiah, a drug trafficker hanged in 2023
Deejays and television personalities
- Anita Kapoor
- Sharanjit Leyl - reporter, producer and presenter with BBC World News
- Vanessa Fernandez
Lawyers
- Davinder Singh
- Eugene Thuraisingam - Human rights lawyer
- Glenn Knight - Singaporean lawyer and the first Director of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD)
- Rajesh Sreenivasan
- Subhas Anandan - prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore
Legal authorities and diplomats
- Dileep Nair - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services; head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
- Gopinath Pillai
- Kasinather Saunthararajah - Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
- Ravinder Singh - Singaporean former army general
- Sundaresh Menon - Chief Justice of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore; first ethnic Indian to hold both posts
- T. S. Sinnathuray - former Singaporean Supreme Court judge
- Vijaya Kumar Rajah - current Attorney-General of Singapore
Literary figures
- Chandran Nair - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO
- Edwin Thumboo
- Janadas Devan - Singaporean journalist
- M. Balakrishnan - Singaporean author, popularly known by his pen name Ma Ilangkannan; first Tamil writer to receive the South East Asian Writers Award in 1982
- V. R. Gopala Pillai
Musicians
- Krissy - rapper and singer
- Lady Kash - award-winning international rapper and songwriter
- Paul Abisheganaden - conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient
- Priyadarshini - playback singer, researcher and performer whose works are predominantly in the Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi cinema industries.
- Shabir - award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, music composer and performer whose works are predominantly in Tamil
Politicians
Opposition parties
- J B Jeyeratnam
- Pritam Singh
- Prof Paul Tambyah
Ruling party
- Devan Nair - 3rd President of Singapore
- Hri Kumar Nair
- Indranee Rajah
- K. Shanmugam - Minister for Foreign Affairs
- S. Dhanabalan
- S. Iswaran
- S. Jayakumar - previously served as Singapore's Senior Minister in the Cabinet and the Co-ordinating Minister for National Security from 2009 to 2011, Deputy Prime Minister from 2004 to 2009, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2004, Minister for Home Affairs from 1988 to 1994, Minister for Law from 1988 to 2008, and Minister for Labour from 1984 to 1985
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam - current President of Singapore
- Vivian Balakrishnan - Minister for Environment and Water Resources
Religious
- Rennis Ponniah - 9th Bishop of Singapore
Balan
Rev Dr Edward Job - prominent philanthropist and religious leader
Sportspeople
Athletics
Cricket
Football and soccer
- Anumanthan Kumar - Singapore international footballer
- Ram Shanker
- Rhysh Roshan Rai
Tennis
Petanque
- Shanti Prakash Upadhayay
Others
- Satheesh Noel Gobidass, victim of an alleged murder case at Orchard Towers in 2019
See also
References
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