List of Malaysians of Indian descent


This is a list of notable Malaysians of Indian origin, including original immigrants who obtained Malaysian citizenship and their Malaysian descendants. Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and define themselves either full or partial Indian origin, whose ethnic origin lie in India.

This list also includes emigrant Malaysians of Indian origin and could be taken as a list of famous Malaysians of Indian origin.

AcademiciansEdit

Activists, social workers, environmentalist and lawyersEdit

 
Karpal Singh, lawyer and politician

Actresses and female modelsEdit

 
Deborah Priya, winner of Miss Malaysia

Ancient rulersEdit

Arts and entertainmentEdit

AstronautEdit

Business people and entrepreneursEdit

ComediansEdit

DancersEdit

Deejays and television personalitiesEdit

DoctorsEdit

Fashion designerEdit

Freedom fighters and nationalistsEdit

  • S. A. Ganapathy, veteran of the communist underground resistance to Japanese occupation and postwar trade unionist in then Malaya; first president of the 300,000-strong Pan Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU); was hanged by the colonial authorities in 1949 after being convicted for allegedly being in possession of firearms
  • Janaky Athi Nahappan, one of the earliest women involved in the fight for Malaysian (then Malaya) independence
  • John Thivy, founding president of the Malayan Indian Congress
  • Rasammah Bhupalan, Malaysian freedom fighter and social activist
  • V. T. Sambanthan, a Founding Father of Independent Malaysia and the fifth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress
  • V. Manickavasagam, Malaysian freedom fighter and the sixth president of the Malaysian Indian Congress

JournalistsEdit

Legal authoritiesEdit

Literary figuresEdit

Martial artistsEdit

MountaineersEdit

  • Maniam Moorthy, member of the first group of Malaysians to successfully climb Mount Everest
  • M. Magendran, the first Malaysian Man who climbed the Mount Everest on 1997

MusiciansEdit

PoliticiansEdit

ReligiousEdit

ScientistsEdit

SurveyorsEdit

Dato Sr K Sri Kandan, Chairman of AECOM (M).

SportspeopleEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. "Thanuja Ananthan". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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