List of National University of Singapore people
The National University of Singapore has produced numerous notable alumni (mostly Singaporean and Malaysian nationals) including four Singapore Presidents and two Singapore 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.
Goh Chok Tong , 2nd Prime Minister of SingaporeTony Tan , 7th President of SingaporeS. R. Nathan , 6th President of SingaporeMahathir Mohamad , 4th and 7th Prime Minister of MalaysiaMargaret Chan , 7th Director-General of the World Health OrganizationKishore Mahbubani , President of the United Nations Security Council (2001–2002)Ho Ching , wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former CEO of Temasek Holdings
Notable alumni
Business
Yvon Bock – founder and CEO of Hegen .[ 10]
Law
Politics and government
Abdullah Tarmugi – former member of parliament, SingaporeAbdul Razak Hussein – second prime minister of MalaysiaAhmed Inaz – Former minister of finance and treasury of the MaldivesAlex Au – gay rights activistAmy Khor – senior minister of state, former mayor of South West District of SingaporeAng Hin Kee – former member of parliament, SingaporeAng Wei Neng – Member of Parliament, SingaporeAng Yong Guan – former member of Singapore Democratic Party and SingFirst , member of Progress Singapore Party Aubeck Kam – permanent secretary for the Ministry of Communications and Information[ 13]
Awang Hassan – Fifth State Governor of Penang , MalaysiaBenjamin Sheares – Second President of SingaporeChan Heng Chee – ambassador to United States[ 14] Chay Wai Chuen – High Commissioner to Sri LankaChen Su Lan – physician, philanthropist, social reformerChia Shi-Lu – former member of parliament, SingaporeChia Yong Yong – Singaporean lawyer, disability advocate and a Nominated Member of Parliament of SingaporeCynthia Phua – former member of parliament, SingaporeDaniel Goh – former Non-constituency Member of Parliament, SingaporeDaren Tang – former chief executive of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore , Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Denise Phua – Politician and Disability Rights ActivistEdmund W. Barker – former member of parliament, politician and lawyerEdward Chia – Member of Parliament, Singapore and Timbre founderEdwin Tong – Minister of Culture, Community and Youth , SingaporeEunice Olsen – former nominated member of parliament, SingaporeFaizah Jamal – former nominated member of parliament, SingaporeGeh Min – former nominated member of parliament, SingaporeGoh Chok Tong – second prime minister of the Republic of SingaporeGoh Keng Swee – former second deputy prime ministerGrace Fu – Minister for Sustainability and the Environment , SingaporeHalimah Yacob – Eighth president of Singapore, former member of parliament, SingaporeHetifah Sjaifudian – Member of House of Representatives , IndonesiaHo Geok Choo – former member of parliament, SingaporeHo Peng Kee – former member of parliament, SingaporeHon Sui Sen – former member of parliament and Minister of Finance, SingaporeHowe Yoon Chong – former Cabinet Minister, SingaporeHri Kumar Sangaran – former member of parliament, SingaporeIndranee Rajah – Member of Parliament, SingaporeIrene Ng – Former Member of Parliament, SingaporeJames Gomez – Member of Singapore Democratic PartyJanadas Devan – Chief of Government Communications at the Ministry of Communications and Information, SingaporeJanice Koh – Actress, former Nominated Member of Parliament, SingaporeJessica Tan – Member of Parliament, SingaporeJosephine Teo – Minister for Manpower , SingaporeK. Shanmugam – Minister for Law and Home Affairs, SingaporeKarpal Singh – Malaysian politician and National Chairman of the Democratic Action PartyKhemmani Pholsena – Top aide to the president of Laos and former Minister of Industry and CommerceLam Pin Min – former Minister of State in Transport and Health, SingaporeLee Yi Shyan – former member of parliament, SingaporeLim Biow Chuan – Member of Parliament, SingaporeLing Liong Sik – former Minister of Transport, Malaysia and president of the Malaysian Chinese Association Louis Ng – Member of Parliament, SingaporeLow Thia Kiang – former secretary general of Workers' Party and Member of Parliament, SingaporeMahathir Mohamad – medical doctor, later fourth & seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohamed Sharael Taha – Member of Parliament, SingaporeMohd Fahmi Aliman – Member of Parliament, SingaporeMuhammad Faishal Ibrahim – Minister of State for Home Affairs, National Development, SingaporeNg Eng Hen – Minister for Defence, SingaporeNoeleen Heyzer – United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Head of UNIFEMNicole Seah – former member of National Solidarity Party , member of Workers' Party Ong Keng Yong – Singapore High Commissioner to Malaysia and former ASEAN Secretary-GeneralOng Soh Khim – former nominated member of parliament, SingaporePhay Seng Whatt – former chairman of Public Service Commission, SingaporePritam Singh – Member of Parliament, Singapore, Secretary General of Workers' Party and Leader of the Opposition Rais Yatim – Minister for Information, Communications and Culture, MalaysiaS. Jayakumar – former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore and Co-ordinating Minister for National Security, Singapore and former Dean of NUS, SingaporeS. R. Nathan – Sixth President of SingaporeSam Tan – former Minister of State for Social and Family Development and Foreign Affairs, SingaporeSebastian Teo – president of National Solidarity PartySha'ari Tadin – former member of parliament, SingaporeSimon Tensing de Cruz – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Singapore to the Russian FederationSim Kee Boon – One of Singapore's pioneer civil servantsSin Boon Ann – former member of parliament, SingaporeSun Xueling – Minister of StateSylvia Lim – Chairman of Workers' Party and Member of Parliament, SingaporeSteve Chia – Former National Solidarity Party member, Secretary-General of the Singapore People's Party Tan Cheng Bock – former member of parliament, Singapore, member of Progress Singapore Party Tan Chuan-Jin – Speaker of Parliament, SingaporeTan See Leng – Minister for Manpower, Second Minister for Trade and Industry, SingaporeTan Soo Khoon – former member of parliament, SingaporeTeo Ho Pin – former member of parliament, SingaporeTin Pei Ling – Member of Parliament, SingaporeToh Chin Chye – former Deputy Prime Minister, SingaporeTommy Koh – Ambassador-at-Large of Singapore and Chairman of the NUS Law Advisory BoardTony Tan Keng Yam – Seventh President of Singapore and former vice chancellor of the National University of SingaporeWong Kan Seng – former Deputy Prime Minister of SingaporeVanu Gopala Menon – Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United NationsVivian Balakrishnan – Minister for Foreign Affairs, SingaporeViswa Sadasivan – Nominated Member of Parliament, SingaporeYaacob Ibrahim – Former Minister for Communications, Singapore and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Singapore, also former faculty memberYam Ah Mee – chief executive director of the People's AssociationYaw Shin Leong – former member of parliament, SingaporeYee Jenn Jong – Former Non-constituency Member of Parliament, SingaporeYeo Guat Kwang – former member of parliament, SingaporeYeo Wan Ling – Member of Parliament, SingaporeYip Hon Weng – Member of Parliament, SingaporeZainul Abidin – former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Academia and education
Louis Chen Hsiao Yun – Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, National University of SingaporeColin Cheong – Writer, TeacherFreddy Boey – Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological UniversityHarry Aveling – Australian scholar, translator and teacherKim-Chuan Toh – Leo Tan Professor in Science, National University of SingaporeKishore Mahbubani – Current Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Former president of United Nation's Security Council[ 15] Mak Joon Wah – Professor of Pathology and vice president of International Medical University Mary W. S. Wong – Professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center at the University of New HampshireNam-Hai Chua – Andrew W. Mellon Professor at Rockefeller University [ 16] Ngiam Tee Liang – Head, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of SingaporeKeat Gin Ooi – Malaysian academician and historian at Universiti Brunei Darussalam [ 17] Simon Tay – Singaporean professor, author, and former nominated member of ParliamentSu Guaning – President Emeritus of Nanyang Technological UniversityTeck-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, BerkeleyTan Cheng Han – former dean of Faculty of Law at National University of SingaporeTan Chorh Chuan – former president of National University of SingaporeTan Eng Chye – President of National University of Singapore[ 18] Tan Tai Yong – President of Singapore University of Social Sciences and former president of Yale-NUS College Wang Gungwu – Tang Prize Laureate, University Professor of NUS, and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
Medicine and sciences
Religion
Sports
Others
Kofi Annan National University Singapore's first Li Ka Shing Professor.[ 24]
Adrian David Cheok – Director of the Mixed Reality Lab[ 25] Keio University , Graduate School of Media Design.[ 26] Andrew Goatly – English language professor at Lingnan University in Hong KongArtur Ekert – One of the inventors of quantum cryptographyBenjamin Batson – Mathematician and historianBerthold-Georg Englert – Known for his early work on quantum opticsKonstantin Novoselov – Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010C. Northcote Parkinson – Writer of Bestseller Parkinson's Law Chan Heng Chee – former Ambassador to the United StatesChin Tet Yung – Member of Parliament for Sembawang GRCChin Liew Ten – Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in AustraliaChong Chi Tat – University Professor and former chairman of Asia Research InstituteChua Beng Huat – Cluster Leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia program at Asia Research InstituteColin Sheppard – former president of the International Society for Optics Within Life SciencesD. J. Enright – British PoetEdwin Thumboo – Singaporean PoetHassan Farhangi – Known for his work in the development of Canada's first Smart MicrogridHenry 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 GroupJohn Lane Bell – Mathematician and philosopherJohn van Wyhe – Historian of science, with a focus on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel WallaceKofi Annan – Seventh Secretary-General of the United NationsLalith Athulathmudali – Sri Lankan politician and former Cabinet Minister of Trade, National Security, Agriculture, Education and deputy minister of defenceLouis Chen Hsiao Yun – First East Asian to be elected President of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsLouxin Zhang – applied mathematician and computational biologist [ 27] M. C. Ricklefs – Indoneasian HistorianMichael Chan, Baron Chan – British Politician, Life peer in the House of LordsMuthucumaraswamy Sornarajah – Author of The International Law on Foreign Investment, the leading text on this area of the lawNalin Mehta – Founding Joint Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal South Asian History and CulturePaul Abisheganaden – Conductor and Cultural Medallion recipientPaul Theroux – American travel writer and novelistPrasenjit Duara – Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore and Director of Asian Research Institute and Research in Humanities and Social SciencesRichard Friend – IEE's Faraday Medal AwardeeRoy 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 LawSit Kim Ping – Biochemist and Emeritus Professor at the Department of BiochemistryStephanie Wehner – Co-discovered that the amount of non-locality in quantum mechanics is limited by the uncertainty principle[ 28] Susan C. Aldridge – former professor (1991-1994). Senior Vice President of Drexel University 's online learning (2013-).[ 29] Thio Li-Ann – Singaporean law professor and nominated member of parliamentWee Teck Gan – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, known for the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture in the theory of automorphic forms , recipient of President's Science Award 2017[ 30] Wolfgang Drechsler – Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy , expert on Non-Western Public Administration and ManagementBrenda Yeoh – Winner of the 2021 Vautrin Lud Prize Young-Tae Chang – Professor of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology Zuowei Shen – Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor and fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
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