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This is a list of Singaporeans, people who are identified with Singapore through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, sorted by surnames/family names.
Singapore rice vermicelli dish with whole mud crab served in a claypot and spiced milky broth. [1] Fish soup bee hoon: Noodle dish Singaporean soup-based seafood dish, served hot usually with bee hoon. The dish is viewed as a healthy food in Singapore. Hokkien mee: Noodle dish A stir-fried dish of egg noodles and rice noodles in a fragrant ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Singaporean This category exists only as a container for other categories of Singaporean women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Singapore's indigenous culture originates primarily from the Austronesian people that arrived from the island of Taiwan, settling between 1500 and 1000 BCE.It was then influenced during the Middle Ages primarily by multiple Chinese dynasties such as the Ming and Qing, as well as by other Asian countries such as the Majapahit Empire, Tokugawa shogunate, and the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Women in Singapore, particularly those who have joined Singapore's workforce, are faced with balancing their traditional and modern-day roles in Singaporean society and economy. According to the book The Three Paradoxes: Working Women in Singapore written by Jean Lee S.K., Kathleen Campbell, and Audrey Chia, there are "three paradoxes ...
The English name Singapore comes from the Malay name Singapura which is believed to have been derived from Sanskrit meaning "Lion City". [2] [3] Singa comes from the Sanskrit word siṃha (सिंह), which means "lion", and pūra means "city" in Sanskrit and is a common suffix in many Indian place names. [4]
Hawker center in Bugis village. A large part of Singaporean cuisine revolves around hawker centres, where hawker stalls were first set up around the mid-19th century, and were largely street food stalls selling a large variety of foods [9] These street vendors usually set up stalls by the side of the streets with pushcarts or bicycles and served cheap and fast foods to coolies, office workers ...
As of 2014, there were only two remaining Samsui women, Mdm Ng Moey Chye (吴妹仔), who was born in Singapore to mainland Chinese parents [9] and Mdm Woo Yun Sum (胡润心). During the 2018 Singapore National Day Parade, a short film depicted the real-life stories of five Singaporeans, including Mdm Woo herself. [10]