List of Singaporean Indians

This is a list of notable Singaporean Indians.

Academicians[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Businessmen[edit | edit source]

G. Ramachandran
Naraina Pillai - social entrepreneur and businessman
Thomas Thomas
Bhupendra Kumar Modi
G. S. Sareen,Omni United
Karan Singh Thakral
Saurabh Mittal
Piyush Gupta,banker
Vinod Kannan
Rajeev Suri

Criminals[edit | edit source]

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 athlete 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[edit | edit source]

Deejays and television personalities[edit | edit source]

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

Lawyers[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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