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 is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

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

Academicians

Activists, social workers, environmentalist and lawyers
Karpal Singh, lawyer and politician

Actresses and female models
Deborah Priya, winner of Miss Malaysia

Ancient rulers
  • Tun Ali of Malacca, fourth Bendahara of the Malaccan Sultanate
  • Tun Mutahir of Malacca, famous bendahara of the Malaccan Sultanate
  • Tun Fatimah, daughter to the Malaccan Bendahara who lived during the 16th century; was married to Malacca's Sultan Mahmud Shah as one of his consorts after all her male siblings were executed

Arts and entertainment

Astronaut

Business people and entrepreneurs

Dato’ M.Natarajen @ M.Kannan Linsun Engineering - Scaffolding & Insulation Contractor

Comedians

Deejays and television personalities
  • Jonathan Putra, television host and actor, Channel V VJ, model, and musician
  • Rueben Thevandran (Burn), Malaysian radio personality, television host, singer, and voice-over artist

Doctors

Fashion designer

Freedom fighters and nationalists
  • 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

Journalists

Literary figures

Martial artists

Mountaineers
  • 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

Musicians

Politicians

Religious

Bishop Sebastian Francis, Catholic Bishop of Penang. Bishop Anthony Bernard Paul, Catholic Bishop Malacca-Johore.

Scientists
  • Alastair Robinson
  • Mahaletchumy Arujunan, listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the field of biotechnology by the 7th edition of The Scientist American Worldwide View: A Global Biotechnology Perspective Journal
  • Satwant Singh Dhaliwal, Malaysian geneticist, academic and author
  • B. C. Shekhar

Surveyors

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

Sportspeople

See also

References
  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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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