1947 in Malaya

Decades:	1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	Other events of 1947; Timeline of Malaysian history;

1947 In Malaya. Malaya under British colony Malayan Union.

Incumbents

1 May - Malaysia Airlines was established as Malayan Airways.^[1]
15 June - Hin Hua High School was founded.
9 October - A Indonesia farmer named Mat Taram bin Sa'al killed eleven people and wounded ten others on a Kuala Lumpur-bound train and a kongsi near Bangi. He was acquitted by reason of insanity.
1 September - Marine Operation Force was established as Marine Police Force.
Unknown date - Tunku Kurshiah College was established as Malay Girls College.
Unknown date - Malaysian Bar was founded. E. D. Shearn is appointed as first president.

3 February - Wan A. Rafar - Poet and essay writer
26 February - Zahari Hasib - Poet (died 2012)
15 May – Muhyiddin Yassin - Malaysian politician and former 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (2009-2015)
2 June - Md Hashim bin Hussein - 18th Commander of Malaysian Armed Forces (1999-2002)
10 August – Anwar Ibrahim - Malaysian politician and former 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (1993-1998)
11 August - Yahaya Ahmad - Former Chairman of DRB-HICOM (died 1997)
24 August - Nor Mohamed Yakcop - Politician
27 August - Zeti Akhtar Aziz - Former Governor Central Bank of Malaysia
13 September - Abdul Ajib Ahmad - Politician and former Menteri Besar of Johor (1982-1985; died 2011)
16 October - Patrick Teoh - Actor and radio announcer
17 October - Zahari Affandi - Writer and journalist
21 December - Abdul Muluk Daud - Writer

↑ "Malaysia Airlines — Our Story". Malaysia Airlines. Retrieved 11 February 2011.

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Years in Malaysia
Malaysia was only formed on September 16, 1963. Prior to that date, Peninsular Malaysia was known as Malaya, Sarawak under Crown Colony of Sarawak and Kingdom of Sarawak and Sabah under North Borneo.
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Years in Federation of Malaya	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
Years in Malaysia	1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

1947 in Asia
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States with limited recognition	Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Tibet Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Bahrain Brunei Colony of Aden Cyprus Dutch East Indies French India French Indochina Kuwait Mandatory Palestine Taiwan