Lieutenant Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh (21 June 1879 – 12 May 1975) was an Indian military doctor and cricketer.Carlaw, pp. 491–492. (Available online at The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)
Born in Bahraich, Singh attended Rugby School, where he made appearances for the school cricket eleven during 1896. Proceeding to Pembroke College, Cambridge, he had a trial in 1901 with Cambridge University's cricket team, and played a solitary match for them against Surrey. He also played in four first-class matches for Kent.Kent's first overseas player, Kent Cricket Heritage Trust, 25 July 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
He was noted as a batsman with a "strong defence" and a fine fielder.
After Cambridge he trained as a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and qualified in 1905. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in 1906, being steadily promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1926.Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615–1930 He retired in 1934.Indian Army Supplement January 1941
At the time of his death in New Delhi, he was the oldest surviving Kent cricketer.
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