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<p>2401:7400:4023:7483:2D01:A5E5:2ADB:5F93: small changes</p> <hr /> <div>{{short description|None}}<br /> <br /> This is a '''list of notable [[Indian Singaporeans|Singaporean Indians]]'''.<br /> <br /> ==Academicians==<br /> * [[Kishore Mahbubani]]<br /> * [[Shan Ratnam]] - professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore<br /> * [[Abhimanyu Goel]] - Researcher and architect<br /> <br /> ==Actors, actresses and models==<br /> * [[Dalreena Poonam Gill]] - winner of Miss World Singapore (2014); Singapore football referee <br /> * [[Gurmit Singh|Gurmit Singh -]] popular actor, host and comedy performer; best known for his role in ''[[Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd]]''<br /> * [[Kumar (Singaporean entertainer)|Kumar]] - comedian, television host, actor, and drag queen<br /> * [[Michelle Saram]]<br /> * [[Nuraliza Osman]] - beauty queen who represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 2002<br /> * [[Pilar Arlando]] - Miss Singapore World for 2009-2010<br /> * [[Rathi Menon]] - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2014<br /> <br /> ==Arts and entertainment==<br /> * [[Haresh Sharma]] - Singaporean playwright<br /> * [[Neila Sathyalingam]] - Singaporean classical Indian dancer<br /> * [[T. Sasitharan]]<br /> <br /> ==Businessmen==<br /> * [[G. Ramachandran]]<br /> * [[Naraina Pillai]] - social entrepreneur and businessman<br /> * [[Thomas Thomas (politician)|Thomas Thomas]]<br /> * [[Bhupendra Kumar Modi]]<br /> * [[G. S. Sareen]],[[Omni United]]<br /> * [[Karan Singh Thakral]]<br /> * [[Saurabh Mittal]]<br /> * [[Piyush Gupta]],banker<br /> * [[Vinod Kannan]]<br /> * [[Rajeev Suri]]<br /> <br /> ==Criminals==<br /> * [[Gaiyathiri Murugayan]], maid abuser and killer<br /> * [[Julaiha Begum]], wife of murdered ex-cop T Maniam for instigating her husband's murder.<br /> * [[Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy]], an army lance corporal sentenced to death for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece.<br /> * [[Mathavakannan Kalimuthu]], convicted murderer who was granted [[clemency]] by then [[President of Singapore]] [[Ong Teng Cheong]] and placed under [[Life imprisonment in Singapore|life imprisonment]].<br /> *[[Maniam Rathinswamy]] and [[S. S. Asokan]], the two security guards responsible for killing a loan shark.<br /> *[[Nadarajah Govindasamy]], a businessman executed in 1977 for killing the fiancé of his daughter <br /> *[[Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi]], a 20-year-old unemployed man who murdered a jogger at Punggol Field.<br /> *[[Shanmugam Murugesu]], a drug trafficker and former sports athlete who was executed in 2005<br /> *[[Pulau Senang prison riots|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]]<br /> *[[Vasavan Sathiadew]], who killed his foster brother<br /> *[[S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy]], a lorry driver hanged for killing a prison warden <br /> *[[Saminathan Subramaniam]], a convicted criminal jailed for manslaughter <br /> *[[Tangaraju Suppiah]], drug trafficker<br /> *[[Bala Kuppusamy]], serial rapist<br /> *[[G. Krishnasamy Naidu]], a former taxi driver sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and decapitating his wife <br /> *[[Soosainathan Dass Saminathan]], a jobless man hanged for the rape and murder of an Indonesian baby girl <br /> *Stephen Francis, Richard James and Konesekaram Nagalingam, the three Indian teenagers hanged for the [[Gold Bars triple murders]] of 1971<br /> *[[Sagar Suppiah Retnam]], a gang leader of [[Ang Soon Tong]] who was executed for killing a bystander during a gang clash<br /> *[[Anbuarsu Joseph]], a gang leader of Gi Leng Kiat who was executed for murder<br /> *[[Gunasegaran Ramasamy]], a convicted robber jailed for stabbing a woman to death<br /> <br /> ==Doctors==<br /> * [[Balaji Sadasivan]]<br /> * [[Gopal Baratham]]<br /> * [[Kanwaljit Soin]]<br /> <br /> ==Deejays and television personalities==<br /> * [[Anita Kapoor]]<br /> * [[Sharanjit Leyl]] - reporter, producer and presenter with BBC World News<br /> * [[Vanessa Fernandez]]<br /> <br /> ==Lawyers==<br /> * [[Davinder Singh (lawyer)|Davinder Singh]]<br /> * [[Eugene Thuraisingam]] - Human rights lawyer<br /> * [[Glenn Knight]] - Singaporean lawyer and the first Director of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD)<br /> * [[Rajesh Sreenivasan]]<br /> * [[Subhas Anandan]] - prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore<br /> <br /> ==Legal authorities and diplomats==<br /> * [[Dileep Nair]] - United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services; head of the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services<br /> * [[Gopinath Pillai]]<br /> * [[K. S. Rajah|Kasinather Saunthararajah]] - Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore<br /> * [[Ravinder Singh (general)|Ravinder Singh]] - Singaporean former army general<br /> * [[Sundaresh Menon]] - Chief Justice of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore; first ethnic Indian to hold both posts<br /> * [[T. S. Sinnathuray]] - former Singaporean Supreme Court judge<br /> * [[V. K. Rajah|Vijaya Kumar Rajah]] - current Attorney-General of Singapore<br /> <br /> ==Literary figures==<br /> * [[Chandran Nair]] - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO<br /> * [[Edwin Thumboo]]<br /> * [[Janadas Devan]] - Singaporean journalist<br /> * [[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<br /> * [[V. R. Gopala Pillai]]<br /> <br /> ==Musicians==<br /> * [[Lady Kash and Krissy|Krissy]] - rapper and singer<br /> * [[Lady Kash]] - award-winning international rapper and songwriter<br /> * [[Paul Abisheganaden]] - conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient<br /> * [[Priyadarshini (singer)|Priyadarshini]] - playback singer, researcher and performer whose works are predominantly in the [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]], [[Kannada cinema|Kannada]], [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] and [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]] cinema industries.<br /> * [[Shabir]] - award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, music composer and performer whose works are predominantly in Tamil<br /> <br /> ==Politicians==<br /> <br /> * [[Vivian Balakrishnan]] - Minister for Environment and Water Resources<br /> * [[S. Dhanabalan]]<br /> * [[S. Iswaran]]<br /> * [[S. Jayakumar (Singaporean politician)|S. Jayakumar]] - politician, diplomat, lawyer and author<br /> * [[Devan Nair|J B Jeyeratnam]]<br /> * [[Devan Nair]] - 3rd President of Singapore<br /> * [[Hri Kumar Nair]] <br /> * [[Indranee Rajah]] <br /> * [[K. Shanmugam]] - Minister for Foreign Affairs<br /> * [[Tharman Shanmugaratnam]] - current [[President of Singapore]] <br /> * [[Pritam Singh (Singaporean politician)|Pritam Singh]] - [[Leader of the Opposition (Singapore)|Leader of the Opposition]], Secretary-General of the [[Workers' Party (Singapore)|Workers' Party]] <br /> * [[Paul Tambyah]] - chairman of the [[Singapore Democratic Party]] and infectious diseases consultant<br /> <br /> ==Religious==<br /> * [[Rennis Ponniah]] - 9th Bishop of Singapore<br /> ==Sportspeople==<br /> <br /> ===Athletics===<br /> * [[C Kunalan]]<br /> * [[Kesavan Soon]]<br /> <br /> ===Cricket===<br /> * [[Mahadevan Sathasivam]]<br /> * [[Stacey Muruthi]]<br /> <br /> ===Football and soccer===<br /> * [[Anumanthan Kumar]] - Singapore international footballer<br /> * [[Ram Shanker]]<br /> * [[Rhysh Roshan Rai]]<br /> * [[Madhu Mohana]] - Singaporean footballer<br /> <br /> ===Tennis===<br /> * [[Rheeya Doshi]]<br /> <br /> ===Petanque===<br /> * [https://www.shantiprakash.com Shanti Prakash Upadhayay]<br /> <br /> ==Others==<br /> * [[Satheesh Noel Gobidass]], victim of an alleged murder case at [[Orchard Towers]] in 2019<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> {{portal|Singapore}}<br /> <br /> * [[List of Malaysians of Indian descent]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> <br /> {{Ethnic groups in Singapore |state=collapsed}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Lists of people of Indian descent|Singaporean]]<br /> [[Category:Ethnic groups in Singapore]]<br /> [[Category:Indian diaspora in Singapore]]<br /> [[Category:Singaporean people of Indian descent]]<br /> [[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity|Indian]]</div>

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