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| x Jiang Yanmei | Feb 26, 1981 | Olympic athlete |
Jiang Yanmei (Simplified Chinese: 江彦媚) (born February 26, 1981) is a Singapore badminton player.
Jiang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Yao Jie of the Netherlands in the round of 32.
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| x Ronald Susilo | Jun 6, 1979 | Male | Olympic athlete |
Ronald Susilo (Chinese: 林羽峰; pinyin: Lín Yǔfēng; born June 6, 1979 in Kediri, East Java, Indonesia) is a Singaporean badminton player of a Chinese-Indonesian origin.
He started playing badminton at the age of 8 at the Pelita Jaya Club in Jakarta. He...
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| x Tan Tock Seng |
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1798 | Male | Deceased Person |
Tan Tock Seng (simplified Chinese: 陈笃生; traditional Chinese: 陳篤生; pinyin: Chén Dǔshēng; 1798-1850) was a Singaporean merchant and philanthropist. Born in Malacca in 1798 to an immigrant Fukien (Hokkien) father and Hokkien Peranakan mother, Tan rose...
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| x Lee Hsien Loong |
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Feb 10, 1952 | Male | Politician |
Lee Hsien Loong (simplified Chinese: 李显龙; traditional Chinese: 李顯龍; pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎnlóng; POJ: Li Hian-liong; born February 10, 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. Lee Hsien Loong is married to Ho Ching, who is the former...
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| x Albert Winsemius | 1910 | Male | Deceased Person |
Albert Winsemius (1910-1996), a Dutch economist, was Singapore's long-time economic advisor from 1961 to 1984. He led the United Nations Survey Mission to Singapore, and was to play a major role in the formulation of Singapore's national economic...
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| x Choo Hoey | 1934 | Male | Musical Artist |
Choo Hoey (朱晖, born 1934, Palembang, Sumatra) is a Singaporean musician and conductor. A Chinese, his father, Choo Seng, was an immigrant from Chaozhou and his mother from Nanjing.
Choo Hoey's family immigrated to Singapore in 1946. He is an alumnus...
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Mar 24, 1965 | Male | Film actor |
Gurmit Ottawan Singh (born March 24, 1965; Chinese: 葛米•星; pinyin: Gémǐ Xīng) is a popular Singaporean actor, host and comedy performer. Most notable for his role in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, he is one of the leading artistes in Mediacorp.
Born to a...
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| x Loke Wan Tho |
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Jun 14, 1915 | Male | Deceased Person |
Loke Wan Tho (Chinese: 陆运涛; pinyin: Lù Yùntāo; 1915–1964) born in Kuala Lumpur (now in Malaysia), was a cinema magnate, ornithologist, and photographer. He was the founder of Cathay Organisation in Singapore and Malaysia, and Motion Picture and...
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| x Shi Ming Yi | 1962 | Male | Religious Leader |
Ven. Shi Ming Yi (Chinese: 释明义; birth name Goh Kah Heng; born 1962) is a Buddhist monk from Singapore, currently serving as the abbot of Foo Hai Chan Monastery. In September 1994, Foo Hai Ch'an Monastery, under the leadership of Ming Yi, established...
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| x Tay Ping Hui | Nov 10, 1970 | Male | TV Personality |
Tay Ping Hui (simplified Chinese: 郑斌辉; pinyin: Zhèng Bīnhuī; born 10 November 1970) is a Singaporean Chinese actor. He is best known for his roles in television dramas on MediaCorp TV Channel 8, although he also appeared in a few movies, including...
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1960 | Male | Deceased Person |
Lee Kim Lai (1960-25 April 1978) was a police officer who was murdered on 25 April 1978 for his service revolver by three men. A serving Police National Serviceman, he was performing police sentry duty at the Police Reserve Unit 1 base of the...
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Mar 12, 1908 | Male | Deceased Person |
David Marshall (12 March 1908 – 31 December 1995) was the leader of the Singapore Labour Front and became the first Chief Minister of Singapore in 1955.
Born into an Orthodox Jewish family of Iraqi ancestry in Singapore, David Marshall was educated...
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| x Lee Kok Cheong | 1939 | Male | Deceased Person |
Associate Professor Lee Kok Cheong (1939 – December 14, 1993) was the Head of the English Proficiency Unit at the National University of Singapore. He was murdered on December 14, 1993; the identities of his killers remained unknown to Singapore...
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| x Sinnathamby Rajaratnam |
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Feb 25, 1915 | Male | Deceased Person |
S.Rajaratnam or Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980 to 1985 and a long time Minister and member of the cabinet from 1959 to 1988. He is regarded as one of the founding...
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| x Kaira Gong |
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Jul 25, 1981 | Female | Musical Artist |
Kaira Gong (simplified Chinese: 龚诗嘉; traditional Chinese: 龔詩嘉; pinyin: Gǒng Shījiā, born July 25, 1981 in Singapore), is a Singaporean singer whose family is of Shanghai, China descent. She is signed with Taiwanese HIM International Music, and is...
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| x Goh Keng Swee |
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Oct 6, 1918 | Male | Politician |
Goh Keng Swee (Christian name: Robert, simplified Chinese: 吴庆瑞; traditional Chinese: 吳慶瑞; pinyin: Wú Qìngruì; born October 6, 1918 in Malacca) was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.
Goh was a son of a rich Malacca family. Although his...
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| x Low Thia Khiang |
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1956 | Male | Politician |
Low Thia Khiang (Traditional Chinese: 劉程強, Simplified Chinese: 刘程强, Pinyin: Liú Chéngqiáng; born 1956) is a politician and businessman from Singapore. He is currently the Secretary-General (leader) of the opposition Workers' Party of Singapore, and...
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| x Tang Liang Hong | 1935 | Male | Politician |
Tang Liang Hong (simplified Chinese: 邓亮洪; pinyin: Dèng Liànghóng) is a senior lawyer and politician from Singapore. He was born in 1935 to parents who came from agricultural backgrounds. He speaks three local languages.
In the 1997 elections in...
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| x Jeremy Monteiro |
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Jun 20, 1960 | Male | Musical Artist |
Jeremy Monteiro (born June 20, 1960, Singapore, is a Jazz Pianist, Singer, Composer and Music Educator. He has performed and won critical acclaim in many parts of the world, in addition to numerous occasions at home in Singapore, where he has been...
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| x Lim Chin Siong |
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Feb 28, 1933 | Male | Deceased Person |
Lim Chin Siong (Chinese: 林清祥; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiáng; 28 February 1933 – 5 February 1996) was an influential leftwing politician and trade union leader in Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born in Telok Ayer Street, Lim studied first in Johor, before...
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| x Khaw Boon Wan |
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Dec 8, 1952 | Male | Politician |
Khaw Boon Wan (simplified Chinese: 许文远; ; pinyin: Xǔ Wényuǎn; born 8 December 1952 in Penang, Malaya) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for Health.
Khaw...
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| x Lim Kim San | Nov 30, 1916 | Male | Deceased Person |
Lim Kim San (Chinese: 林金山; pinyin: Lín Jīnshān); (30 November 1916 - 20 July 2006) was a Singaporean politician. He was credited for leading the successful public housing program in the Southeast Asian City-State during the early 1960s, which eased...
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| x Li Li | Jul 7, 1983 | Female | Olympic athlete |
Li Li (Chinese: 李理; pinyin: Lí Lǐ; born July 7, 1983) is the top-ranked female badminton player in Singapore. She was born in China and moved to Singapore in 1997.
Li won the 2002 Commonwealth Games Women's singles gold medal by beating favourite...
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| x Olinda Cho |
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May 24, 1980 | Female | Musical Artist |
Olinda Cho Yu Yen (simplified Chinese: 卓犹燕; pinyin: Zhuó Yóuyàn; born May 24, 1980) is a Singapore Idol Season 1 finalist. She was the competition's 2nd runner-up, behind Sylvester Sim and Taufik Batisah.
She has lost a tremendous amount of weight,...
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| x Tan Soo Khoon | Sep 1, 1949 | Male | Politician |
Tan Soo Khoon (simplified Chinese: 陈树群; pinyin: Chén Shùqún; born September 1, 1949), is a former Member of the Parliament of Singapore, and a member of the current ruling party, the People's Action Party. He was first elected in 1976, and stepped...
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| x Lim Bo Seng |
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Apr 27, 1909 | Male | Deceased Person |
Lim Bo Seng (simplified Chinese: 林谋盛; traditional Chinese: 林謀盛; pinyin: Lín Móushèng; April 27, 1909 - June 29, 1944) was a World War II anti-Japanese resistance fighter based in Singapore and Malaya.
Lim Bo Seng was born in 1909 to Lim Loh (alias...
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| x Dasmond Koh | 1972 | Male | TV Personality |
Dasmond Koh (simplified Chinese: 许振荣; pinyin: Xǔ Zhènróng; born 1972) is a Singaporean television compere and actor. He made his career debut on the leading Chinese music radio station in Singapore (YES93.3FM) as a full-time deejay and was an...
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| x Eric Khoo |
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1965 | Male | Film director |
Eric Khoo (Chinese Name: 邱金海) is a film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age. He was educated at United World College of South East Asia before attending City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia where...
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| x Newton N. Minow |
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Jan 17, 1926 | Male | Public speaker |
Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His speech referring to television as a "Vast Wasteland" is cited even as the speech approaches its 50th anniversary....
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| x Xiang Yun | Oct 27, 1961 | Female | Film actor |
Xiang Yun (simplified Chinese: 向云; pinyin: Xiàng Yún; born 27 October 1961 as Chen Cuichang (陈翠嫦)) is a Singaporean actress from MediaCorp. She is considered as one of the veteran actresses in MediaCorp with 27 years of her career in the Singaporean...
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| x Lee Wen |
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1957 | Male | Influence Node |
Lee Wen (simplified Chinese: 李文; pinyin: Lǐ Wén) is a Singaporean performance artist on social identity themes, and best known for his Yellow Man performances. Painting his own body with bright yellow poster paint, he expresses an exaggerated symbol...
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Jan 19, 1983 | Male | Musical Artist |
Sylvester Sim (simplified Chinese: 沈祥龙; pinyin: Shěn Xiánglóng; born January 19, 1983) is a Singaporean singer. He was the first runner-up of the talent contest Singapore Idol. He is widely known as Sly to his fans.
A self-professed rocker and...
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| x Shan Ratnam | Jul 4, 1928 | Male | Deceased Person |
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam (July 4, 1928–August 6, 2001) is the professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore is a world leader in human reproduction research....
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| x Donita Rose | 1974 | Female | TV Actor |
Donita Rose Villarama, (née Donita Rose Ramos Cavett), also known as Donita Rose, Donita, is a Filipina actress, TV Host and former MTV Asia VJ.
She was born in Utah, U.S. on December 5, 1974 and moved to the Philippines when she was five years old....
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| x U. K. Shyam | Jul 1, 1976 | Male |
Umaglia Kancanangai Shyam Dhuleep, or UK Shyam (born 1st July 1976), is a Singaporean athlete.
He attended St. Andrew's Secondary School and Raffles Junior College, and went on to do a double degree in Philosophy and Political Science at the...
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Jan 27, 1971 | Female | Film actor |
Fann Woon Fong (Chinese: 范文芳; pinyin: Fàn Wénfāng, formerly 范雯芳; born 27 January 1971), better known by her stage name Fann Wong, is a Singaporean actress, singer and model.
At Singapore's Star Awards 1995, Fann became the first actress to win both...
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| x Arthur Yap |
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1942 | Male | Deceased Person |
Arthur Yap (simplified Chinese: 叶纬雄; pinyin: Yè WěiXióng) was a Singaporean poet and a painter.
He was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife. Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he...
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| x Fiona Bruce |
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Apr 25, 1964 | Female |
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964 in Singapore City, Singapore) is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including...
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| x Devan Nair |
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Aug 5, 1923 | Male | Deceased Person |
Devan Nair a/l Chengara Veetil, also known as C. V. Devan Nair (Malayalam: ദേവന് നായര്) (August 5, 1923–December 6, 2005), was the third President of Singapore and was elected by Parliament on October 23, 1981. He served as President until his...
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| x Lin Jun Jie |
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Mar 27, 1981 | Male | Musical Artist |
Lín Jùn Jié (born on March 27, 1981) is a Singaporean Chinese Pop-Singer. He is also known as JJ Lin. Wayne Lim is his baptismal name, and it is generally used by his friends and members of his church. He indicates on his Twitter page that he is...
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| x Lim Yew Hock | Oct 15, 1914 | Male | Deceased Person |
Lim Yew Hock (Chinese: 林有福; pinyin: Lín Yǒufú; 15 October 1914- 30 November 1984), later renamed Haji Omar Lim Yew Hock, was Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959. He is known for suppressing the communist movements and leading the all...
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| x Zhang Xueling | May 7, 1983 | Female | Table Tennis Player |
Zhang Xueling (born 7 May 1983 in Beijing, China) is a Singaporean table tennis player.
Zhang started playing table tennis at the age of 6 and made her first international appearance in 1999. She won four gold medals at the 2005 Southeast Asian...
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| x Lee Siew Choh |
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1917 | Male | Deceased Person |
Dr. Lee Siew Choh (simplified Chinese: 李绍祖; pinyin: Lǐ Shàozǔ; 1917 - 18 July 2002) was a Singapore politician. Lee was born in Kuala Lumpur and was educated at Victoria Institution. He was trained as a medical doctor, but spent most of his life as...
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| x Shanmugam Murugesu |
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1967 | Male | Deceased Person |
Shanmugam Murugesu (c.1967 – 13 May 2005) was a Tamil Singaporean executed for smuggling 1.03 kg of cannabis into Singapore from Malaysia. Such offenses carry a mandatory death sentence under Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act.
Prior to his death,...
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| x Edmund W. Barker | Dec 1, 1920 | Male | Deceased Person |
Edmund William Barker (December 1, 1920 – 2001) was a Singaporean politician of mixed German, Scottish, Japanese, Indonesian and Irish descent.
Barker first practised law in Braddell Brothers and later in Lee & Lee from 1957 to 1964. In 1963, he was...
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| x Ling How Doong | 1934 | Male | Politician |
Ling How Doong (Chinese: 林孝谆, born c. 1934) is a Singaporean politician. In 1991 Ling won 51.4% of votes against People's Action Party's (PAP) candidate, Dr Seet Ai Mee, who had obtained 48.6%, and Bukit Gombak became one of only four constituencies...
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| x Yusof bin Ishak |
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Aug 12, 1910 | Male | Deceased Person |
Yusof bin Ishak (pronounced /ˈjʊsɒf bɪn ˈɪs.hɑːk/ YOOS-sof bɪn ΙS-haak) (12 August 1910 – 23 November 1970) was an eminent Singaporean politician and the first President of Singapore. His portrait appears on the Singapore Portrait Series currency...
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| x Wee Chong Jin |
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Sep 28, 1917 | Male | Deceased Person |
Wee Chong Jin (Chinese: 黄宗仁; pinyin: Huáng Zōng Rén) was born in Penang to parents Wee Gim Puay and Lim Paik Yew. He received his early education at the Penang Free School, and read law at St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to Bar at the...
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| x Margaret Leng Tan | 1953 | Female | Musical Artist |
Margaret Leng Tan (Chinese: 陳靈; Min Nan: Tân Lêng; pinyin: Chén Líng) is a classical music artist known for her work as a professional toy pianist, performing in major cities around the world on her 51 cm-high toy pianos. She is also known to be a...
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| x Foo Swee Chin | Jul 27, 1977 | Female |
Foo Swee Chin (often abbreviated FSc) (born July 27, 1977) is a Singaporean comic book artist.
She is the creator of several alternative comic books, including "A Lost Stock of Children" and "Mince," published by Neko Press, as well as "Chimney 25"...
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Sep 13, 1954 | Male | Politician |
George Yong-Boon Yeo (born 13 September 1954; simplified Chinese: 杨荣文; traditional Chinese: 楊榮文; pinyin: Yáng Róngwén) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for...
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| x Chua Phung Kim | Male | Deceased Person |
Chua Phung Kim (death 1990) is a Singaporean weightlifter who first took to the sport in 1960 after being introduced to it by his elder brother, Chua Peng Kim. Just two years later, he helped Singapore win another gold medal in the Commonwealth...
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| x Edwin Thumboo |
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Nov 22, 1933 | Male | Influence Node |
Edwin Nadason Thumboo (born 22 November 1933) is an award-winning Singaporean poet and academic who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore.
Thumboo graduated in English from the University of Malaya in 1956. Although...
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| x Kit Chan |
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Sep 15, 1972 | Female | Musical Artist |
Kit Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈洁仪; traditional Chinese: 陳潔儀; pinyin: Chén Jiéyí; born September 15, 1972) is a Singaporean singer. She was a member of the pioneer generation of Singaporean singers to successfully break into the international market,...
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| x Benjamin Henry Sheares |
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Aug 12, 1907 | Male | Deceased Person |
Benjamin Henry Sheares (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981) was the second President of Singapore.
Benjamin was born the second child of six children in Singapore to a Eurasian family with an English lineage. His father Edwin H Sheares, a technical...
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| x Wong Kan Seng |
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1946 | Male | Politician |
Wong Kan Seng (simplified Chinese: 黄根成; ; pinyin: Huáng Gēnchéng; POJ: Ng Kun-siaⁿ; born 1946) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
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| x Catherine Lim |
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1942 | Female | Film writer |
Catherine Lim (simplified Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn) is a best-selling Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers", Lim has...
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| x Rui En |
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Jan 29, 1981 | Female | Musical Artist |
Rui En (simplified Chinese: 瑞恩; ; pinyin: Ruì'ēn; stage name for Lu Rui En, 卢瑞恩, born January 29, 1981) is a Chinese Singaporean singer-actress.
Rui En was talent-spotted while appearing in SingTel's popular SingTel hi!Card commercial as the iconic ...
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| x Daniel Bennett |
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Jan 7, 1978 | Male | Football player |
Daniel Mark Bennett (born January 7, 1978, in Great Yarmouth, England) is a professional soccer player who plays for the Singapore national football team, and for the Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC) in Singapore's S.League. He was born...
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| x Alauddin Alam Shah | 1846 | Male | Deceased Person |
Tengku Alam Shah bin Ali Iskandar Shah was a prince of the House of Bendahara (Johor), and was the oldest son of Sultan Ali, the 19th Sultan of Johor by his second wife, Daing Siti. Following his father's death in 1877, Tengku Alam and his...
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