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This is a list of Singaporeans, ... sorted by surnames/family names. ... This page was last edited on 28 April 2024, ...
Note: For Malays in Singapore, the last name is patronymic, not a family name. The person should be referred to by his or her first or second name which is the given name. The Malay word bin (b.) or binte (bte.), if used, means "son of" or "daughter of" respectively.
Singaporean literature in English was first started by the Peranakan community in colonial Singapore during the 1830s. Singaporean English literature first gained notability in 1937, with a poetry known as F.M.S.R. A Poem, written by Teo Poh Leng [58] and was followed by Wang Gungwu's work, Pulse, in the 1950. [59]
Pages in category "Lists of Singaporean people" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... This page was last edited on 6 February 2018, at 18: ...
This category is for people who are Singapore citizens. For other people born or resident in Singapore, please use Category:People from Singapore . To ensure that biographical articles are sorted by people's surnames , please add "{{DEFAULTSORT:[ Surname ], [ Personal names ]}}" to the articles.
For Malays in Singapore, the last name is patronymic, not a family name. The person should be referred to by his or her first or second name which is the given name. The Malay word bin (b.) or binte (bte.), if used, means "son of" or "daughter of" respectively.
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
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]