Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities who Shaped the Nation

Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities who Shaped the Nation

by Ying Hui
Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities who Shaped the Nation

Not Born in Singapore: Fifty Personalities who Shaped the Nation

by Ying Hui

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Overview

Did you know that we owe the iconic Singapore Girl to a British-born adman? Or that the founder of the popular Mustafa Centre hails from India? This year as we celebrate our local heroes, it’s also time to put the spotlight on other unsung contributors who have shaped our nation. They may have come from other shores, but these 50 foreigners have left their mark in building Singapore into the nation we know it to be today.

The 50 remarkable individuals are:

ARTS
Ian Batey, K. P. Bhaskar, Santha Bhaskar, Della Butcher, Choo Hoey, John Herbert, Kuo Pao Kun, Goh Lay Kuan, J. M. Sali, Tan Swie Hian

ECONOMY
Mustaq Ahmad, Sir Laurence Hartnett, Dr Tsutomu Kanai, Pasquale Pistorio, Captain Muhammad Jalaluddin Sayeed, Tang I-Fang Ratan Tata, Kartar Singh Thakral, Tan Sri Frank Tsao Wen- King, Alain Vandenborre, Cyril Neville Watson, Albert Winsemius

EDUCATION
Dr Robert A. Brown, Brother Joseph McNally, Milenko Prvacki, Mary Turnbull, Professor Wang Gungwu, Professor Wu Teh Yao, Dr John Miksic, Ann Wee

SOCIETY
Professor T. H. Elliott, Christine Laimer, Lien Ying Chow, BG Yaakov ‘Jack’ Elazari, G. G. Thomson, Krystyn Olszewski, Bruno Wildermuth

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr Sydney Brenner, Professor Edward W. Holmes, Dr Edison Liu, Sir George Radda, Dr Shan Ratnam, Sir David Lane, Professor Jackie Y. Ying

SPORTS
Aleksandar Duric, Feng Tianwei, Jing Junhong, Ronald Susilo, Tao Li


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814655422
Publisher: Epigram Books
Publication date: 02/18/2019
Sold by: Hallenberger Media
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

Ying Hui has a Master’s Degree from Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She had the most wonderful two years of her life during graduate school exploring the mountains in Colorado. During those two years of graduate school, she also read two texts that became her favourites—The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt.
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