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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. Please do not add entries that have no articles written about them.
Lee was called to the Singapore bar on 7 August 1951. [64] During the postal union strike in May 1952, Lee negotiated a settlement which would mark his first step into the labour movement. [65] In due course, Lee represented nearly fifty trade unions and associations against the British authorities on a pro bono basis. [66]
It was reported that Habibie had remarked that he did not feel that Singapore was a friend and had pointed to a map, saying: "It's O.K. with me, but there are 211 million people [in Indonesia]. Look at that map. All the green [area] is Indonesia. And that red dot is Singapore. Look at that."
The first possible written records of Singapore possibly date to the 2nd century, when the island was identified as a trading post in the maps of the Greek astronomer, Ptolemy. The map located a place called Sabara or Sabana at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (named the Golden Khersonese) where Singapore lies.
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents.A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
Wong, 51, comes from among a crop of so-called "4G" leaders, a new generation of politicians hand-picked by the long-ruling People's Action Party (PAP) to take over the reins of the key Asian ...
Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. [5] Singapore is home to a people of a variety of ethno-racial-religious origins, with the city-state itself being a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-denominational, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic country.
The President of Singapore is the head of state of the Republic of Singapore. Preceded by the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, the office of president was created on 22 December 1965 after Singapore's independence in August 1965, with incumbent Yang di-Pertuan Negara Yusof Ishak serving as the first president.