List of Singaporean Indians

This is a list of notable Singaporean Indians.

Academicians

• Kishore Mahbubani
• Shan Ratnam - professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore
• Abhimanyu Goel - Researcher and architect

Actors, actresses and models

• Dalreena Poonam Gill - winner of Miss World Singapore (2014); Singapore football referee
• Gurmit Singh - popular actor, host and comedy performer; best known for his role in Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd
• Kumar - comedian, television host, actor, and drag queen
• Michelle Saram
• Nuraliza Osman - beauty queen who represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 2002
• Pilar Arlando - Miss Singapore World for 2009-2010
• Rathi Menon - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2014

Arts and entertainment

• Haresh Sharma - Singaporean playwright
• Neila Sathyalingam - Singaporean classical Indian dancer
• T. Sasitharan

Businessmen

• G. Ramachandran
• Naraina Pillai - social entrepreneur and businessman
• Thomas Thomas

Criminals

• Gaiyathiri Murugayan, maid abuser and killer
• Julaiha Begum, wife of murdered ex-cop T Maniam for instigating her husband's murder.
• Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, an army lance corporal sentenced to death for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece.
• Mathavakannan Kalimuthu, convicted murderer who was granted clemency by then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong and placed under life imprisonment.
• Maniam Rathinswamy and S. S. Asokan, the two security guards responsible for killing a loan shark.
• Nadarajah Govindasamy, a businessman executed in 1977 for killing the fiancé of his daughter
• Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi, a 20-year-old unemployed man who murdered a jogger at Punggol Field.
• Shanmugam Murugesu, a drug trafficker and former sports athele who was executed in 2005
• Somasundarajoo s/o Vengdasalam, Somasundram s/o Subramaniam and Ponapalam s/o Govindasamy, the three Indians who were among the eighteen rioters hanged for killing four prison officers during the Pulau Senang riots
• Vasavan Sathiadew, who killed his foster brother
• S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, a lorry driver hanged for killing a prison warden
• Saminathan Subramaniam, a convicted criminal jailed for manslaughter
• Tangaraju Suppiah, drug trafficker
• Bala Kuppusamy, serial rapist
• G. Krishnasamy Naidu, a former taxi driver sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and decapitating his wife
• Soosainathan Dass Saminathan, a jobless man hanged for the rape and murder of an Indonesian baby girl
• Stephen Francis, Richard James and Konesekaram Nagalingam, the three Indian teenagers hanged for the Gold Bars triple murders of 1971
• Sagar Suppiah Retnam, a gang leader of Ang Soon Tong who was executed for killing a bystander during a gang clash
• Anbuarsu Joseph, a gang leader of Gi Leng Kiat who was executed for murder
• Gunasegaran Ramasamy, a convicted robber jailed for stabbing a woman to death

Doctors

• Balaji Sadasivan
• Gopal Baratham
• Kanwaljit Soin

Deejays and television personalities

• Anita Kapoor
• Sharanjit Leyl - reporter, producer and presenter with BBC World News
• Vanessa Fernandez

Lawyers

• Davinder Singh
• Eugene Thuraisingam - Human rights lawyer
• Glenn Knight - Singaporean lawyer and the first Director of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD)
• Rajesh Sreenivasan
• Subhas Anandan - prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore

Legal authorities and diplomats

• Dileep Nair - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services; head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
• Gopinath Pillai
• Kasinather Saunthararajah - Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
• Ravinder Singh - Singaporean former army general
• Sundaresh Menon - Chief Justice of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore; first ethnic Indian to hold both posts
• T. S. Sinnathuray - former Singaporean Supreme Court judge
• Vijaya Kumar Rajah - current Attorney-General of Singapore

Literary figures

• Chandran Nair - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO
• Edwin Thumboo
• Janadas Devan - Singaporean journalist
• M. Balakrishnan - Singaporean author, popularly known by his pen name Ma Ilangkannan; first Tamil writer to receive the South East Asian Writers Award in 1982
• V. R. Gopala Pillai

Musicians

• Krissy - rapper and singer
• Lady Kash - award-winning international rapper and songwriter
• Paul Abisheganaden - conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient
• Priyadarshini - playback singer, researcher and performer whose works are predominantly in the Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi cinema industries.
• Shabir - award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, music composer and performer whose works are predominantly in Tamil

Politicians

• Vivian Balakrishnan - Minister for Environment and Water Resources
• S. Dhanabalan
• S. Iswaran
• S. Jayakumar - politician, diplomat, lawyer and author
• J B Jeyeratnam
• Devan Nair - 3rd President of Singapore
• Hri Kumar Nair
• Indranee Rajah
• K. Shanmugam - Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam - current President of Singapore
• Pritam Singh - Leader of the Opposition, Secretary-General of the Workers' Party
• Paul Tambyah - chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party and infectious diseases consultant

Religious

• Rennis Ponniah - 9th Bishop of Singapore

Sportspeople

Athletics

• C Kunalan
• Kesavan Soon

Cricket

• Mahadevan Sathasivam
• Stacey Muruthi

Football and soccer

• Anumanthan Kumar - Singapore international footballer
• Ram Shanker
• Rhysh Roshan Rai

Tennis

• Rheeya Doshi

Petanque

• Shanti Prakash Upadhayay

Others

• Satheesh Noel Gobidass, victim of an alleged murder case at Orchard Towers in 2019

See also

• List of Malaysians of Indian descent

References

This page was last edited on 19 December 2023, at 20:38