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 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]
Bachtiar Karim - Executive Chairman of Musim Mas, a large palm oil conglomerate in Indonesia and based in Singapore.
Chew Choon Seng - Former Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Chairman of the Singapore Exchange and the Singapore Tourism Board^[3]
Chua Sock Khoong - Group CEO of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel)
Ho Ching - Former Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings^[4]
Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara - Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings^[5]
Lim Li Kok - founder of Asiapac Books^[6]
Olivia Lum - Chief Executive Officer of Hyflux Group^[7]
Philip Yeo - Chairman of SPRING Singapore^[8]
Dato Sri Tahir - Billionaire and Founder of the Mayapada Group^[9]
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.
Aleks Farseev - co-founder and CEO of SoMin.ai, Research Professor at ITMO University, and Marketing & Advertising Community Chairman at Forbes.

Law

Adrian Tan - Lawyer and Author
Andrew Ang - Supreme Court Judge^[10]
Andrew Phang - Supreme Court Judge^[10]
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
Lucien Wong - Attorney-General, Singapore
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^[10]
Tan Choo Leng - Advocate and solicitor for M/s Wong Partnership
Tay Yong Kwang - Supreme Court Judge^[10]
V. K. Rajah - Supreme Court Judge^[10]
Walter Woon - David Marshall Professor and former Attorney-General of Singapore
Woo Bih Li - Supreme Court Judge^[10]

Politics and government

Abdullah Tarmugi - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
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 - Senior Minister of State, former Mayor of South West District of Singapore
Ang Hin Kee - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Ang Wei Neng - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Ang 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^[11]
Awang Hassan - Fifth State Governor of Penang, Malaysia
Benjamin Sheares - Second President of Singapore
Chan Heng Chee - Ambassador to United States^[12]
Chay Wai Chuen - High Commissioner to Sri Lanka
Chen Su Lan - Physician, Philanthropist, Social reformer
Chia Shi-Lu - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Chia Yong Yong - Singaporean lawyer, disability advocate and a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore
Cynthia Phua - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Daniel Goh - Former Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Singapore
Daren Tang - Former Chief Executive of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Denise Phua - Politician and Disability Rights Activist
Edmund W. Barker - Former Member of Parliament, politician and lawyer
Edward Chia - Member of Parliament, Singapore and Timbre founder
Edwin Tong - Minister of Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore
Eunice Olsen - Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
Faizah Jamal - Former 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 for Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore
Halimah Yacob - Eighth President of Singapore, former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Hetifah Sjaifudian - Member of House of Representatives, Indonesia
Ho Geok Choo - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Ho Peng Kee - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Hon Sui Sen - Former Member of Parliament and Minister of Finance, Singapore
Howe Yoon Chong - Former Cabinet Minister, Singapore
Hri Kumar Sangaran - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Indranee Rajah - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Irene Ng - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
James Gomez - Member of Singapore Democratic Party
Janadas Devan - Chief of Government Communications at the Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore
Janice Koh - Actress, Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
Jessica Tan - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Josephine Teo - Minister for Manpower, Singapore
K. Shanmugam - Minister for Law and Home Affairs, Singapore
Karpal Singh - Malaysian politician and National Chairman of the Democratic Action Party
Khemmani Pholsena - Top aide to the President of Laos and former Minister of Industry and Commerce
Lam Pin Min - Former Minister of State in Transport and Health, Singapore
Lee Yi Shyan - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Lim Biow Chuan - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Ling Liong Sik - Former Minister of Transport, Malaysia and president of the Malaysian Chinese Association
Louis Ng - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Low Thia Kiang - Former Secretary General of Workers' Party and Member of Parliament, Singapore
Mahathir Mohamad - Medical Doctor, later fourth & seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia
Mohamed Sharael Taha - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Mohd Fahmi Aliman - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim - Minister of State for Home Affairs, National Development, Singapore
Ng Eng Hen - Minister for Defence, Singapore
Noeleen Heyzer - United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Head of UNIFEM
Nicole Seah - Former member of National Solidarity Party, member of Workers' Party
Ong Keng Yong - Singapore High Commissioner to Malaysia and former ASEAN Secretary-General
Ong Soh Khim - Former Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
Phay Seng Whatt - Former Chairman of Public Service Commission, Singapore
Pritam Singh - Member of Parliament, Singapore, Secretary General of Workers' Party and Leader of the Opposition
Rais Yatim - Minister for Information, Communications and Culture, Malaysia
S. Jayakumar - Former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore and Co-ordinating Minister for National Security, Singapore and former Dean of NUS, Singapore
S. R. Nathan - Sixth President of Singapore
Sam Tan - Former Minister of State for Social and Family Development and Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Sebastian Teo - President of National Solidarity Party
Sha'ari Tadin - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
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 - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Sun Xueling - Minister of State
Sylvia Lim - Chairman of Workers' Party and Member of Parliament, Singapore
Steve 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, Singapore
Tan See Leng - Minister for Manpower, Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore
Tan Soo Khoon - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Teo Ho Pin - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Tin Pei Ling - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Toh Chin Chye - Former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore
Tommy Koh - Ambassador-at-Large of Singapore and Chairman of the NUS Law Advisory Board
Tony Tan Keng Yam - Seventh 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 Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Viswa Sadasivan - Nominated Member of Parliament, Singapore
Yaacob Ibrahim - Former Minister for Communications, Singapore and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Singapore, also former faculty member
Yam Ah Mee - Chief Executive Director of the People's Association
Yaw Shin Leong - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Yee Jenn Jong - Former Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Singapore
Yeo Guat Kwang - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore
Yeo Wan Ling - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Yip Hon Weng - Member of Parliament, Singapore
Zainul Abidin - Former Member of Parliament, Singapore

Academia and education

Louis Chen Hsiao Yun - Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, National University of Singapore
Colin Cheong - Writer, Teacher
Freddy Boey - Deputy President and Provost of Nanyang Technological University
Harry Aveling - Australian scholar, translator and teacher
Kim-Chuan Toh - Leo Tan Professor in Science, National University of Singapore
Kishore Mahbubani - Current Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Former President of United Nation's Security Council^[13]
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 Hampshire
Nam-Hai Chua - Andrew W. Mellon Professor at Rockefeller University^[14]
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 - Former President of National University of Singapore
Tan Eng Chye - President of National University of Singapore^[15]
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

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
Michael Sheetz - Lasker Award winner
Kanwaljit Soin - Consultant Orthopedic & Hand surgeon
Mak Joon Wah - Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Lymphatic Filariasis
Margaret Chan - Director General of the World Health Organization
Miranda Yap - Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Kay Tan - contributions to evolutionary multiobjective optimization
Paul Tambyah - Professor, Infectious Disease expert
Robert Tan - Physician, Author and Medical Director
Teo Wan Lin - Dermatologist
Quek Loo Ming -Former laboratory officer and convicted killer

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
U. K. Shyam - Singaporean athlete and current national 100m record holder of Singapore

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
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
Grace Ciao - Fashion illustrator.^[20]
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
Joanna Dong - Singer, Actress and Host
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
Violet Oon - Chef, restaurateur, and food writer
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

Others

Chia Teck Leng, former manager of Asia Pacific Breweries and convicted white-collar criminal

Notable faculty/former faculty

Adrian David Cheok - Director of the Mixed Reality Lab^[22] He is a Full Professor in Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design.^[23]
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
Konstantin Novoselov - Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010
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 - University Professor and 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
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
Louxin Zhang - applied mathematician and computational biologist ^[24]
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
Sit Kim Ping - Biochemist and Emeritus Professor at the Department of Biochemistry
Stephanie Wehner - Co-discovered that the amount of non-locality in quantum mechanics is limited by the uncertainty principle^[25]
Susan C. Aldridge - Former professor (1991-1994). Senior Vice President of Drexel University's online learning (2013-).^[26]
Thio Li-Ann - Singaporean law professor and nominated member of parliament
Wee 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^[27]
Wolfgang Drechsler - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, expert on Non-Western Public Administration and Management
Brenda 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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