List of Singaporean Indians

This is a list of notable Singaporean Indians.

Academicians

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

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
• Pilar Arlando - Miss Singapore World for 2009-2010
• Rathi Menon - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2014
• Nuraliza Osman - beauty queen who represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 2002
• Zahra Khanum - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2018

Arts and entertainment

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

Businessmen

• Naraina Pillai - social entrepreneur and businessman; spent most of his life in Singapore during the colonial period; of Tamil origins, he greatly contributed to the Tamil community in Singapore
• G. Ramachandran
• Thomas Thomas
• Vinai Prakash - eMarketing consultant, Excel and PMP trainer based in Singapore

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

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
• T. S. Sinnathuray - former Singaporean Supreme Court judge
• Sundaresh Menon - Chief Justice of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore; first ethnic Indian to hold both posts
• Vijaya Kumar Rajah - current Attorney-General of Singapore
• Ravinder Singh - Singaporean former army general

Literary figures

• 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
• Chandran Nair - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO
• Edwin Thumboo
• Fazillah Abdul Gaffa
• Janadas Devan - Singaporean journalist
• V. R. Gopala Pillai

Musicians

• Lady Kash - award-winning international rapper and songwriter
• Krissy - rapper and singer
• Paul Abisheganaden - conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient
• Tabitha Nauser - pop/R&B singer
• Taufik Batisah
• Shabir - award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, music composer and performer whose works are predominantly in Tamil

Politicians

Religious

• Rennis Ponniah - 9th Bishop of Singapore

Sportspeople

See also

• List of Malaysian Indians

References