This is a list of notable Singaporean Indians.
Academicians Kishore Mahbubani Shan Ratnam - professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore Abhimanyu Goel - Researcher and architect
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 Nuraliza Osman - beauty queen who represented Singapore at the Miss Universe 2002 Pilar Arlando - Miss Singapore World for 2009–2010 Rathi Menon - model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Singapore Universe 2014
Arts and entertainment Haresh Sharma - Singaporean playwright Neila Sathyalingam - Singaporean classical Indian dancer T. Sasitharan
Businessmen G. Ramachandran Naraina Pillai - social entrepreneur and businessman Thomas Thomas Bhupendra Kumar Modi G. S. Sareen, Omni United Karan Singh Thakral Saurabh Mittal Piyush Gupta, banker Vinod Kannan Rajeev Suri
Criminals Gaiyathiri Murugayan, maid abuser and killer Julaiha Begum, wife of murdered ex-cop T Maniam for instigating her husband's murder. Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, an army lance corporal sentenced to death for molesting and killing his seven-year-old niece. Mathavakannan Kalimuthu, convicted murderer who was granted clemency by then President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong and placed under life imprisonment. Maniam Rathinswamy and S. S. Asokan, the two security guards responsible for killing a loan shark. Nadarajah Govindasamy, a businessman executed in 1977 for killing the fiancé of his daughter Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi, a 20-year-old unemployed man who murdered a jogger at Punggol Field. Shanmugam Murugesu, a drug trafficker and former sports athlete who was executed in 2005 Somasundarajoo s/o Vengdasalam, Somasundram s/o Subramaniam and Ponapalam s/o Govindasamy, the three Indians who were among the eighteen rioters hanged for killing four prison officers during the Pulau Senang riots Vasavan Sathiadew, who killed his foster brother S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, a lorry driver hanged for killing a prison warden Saminathan Subramaniam, a convicted criminal jailed for manslaughter Tangaraju Suppiah, drug trafficker Bala Kuppusamy, serial rapist G. Krishnasamy Naidu, a former taxi driver sentenced to life imprisonment for killing and decapitating his wife Soosainathan Dass Saminathan, a jobless man hanged for the rape and murder of an Indonesian baby girl Stephen Francis, Richard James and Konesekaram Nagalingam, the three Indian teenagers hanged for the Gold Bars triple murders of 1971 Sagar Suppiah Retnam, a gang leader of Ang Soon Tong who was executed for killing a bystander during a gang clash Anbuarsu Joseph, a gang leader of Gi Leng Kiat who was executed for murder Gunasegaran Ramasamy, a convicted robber jailed for stabbing a woman to death
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 Eugene Thuraisingam - Human rights lawyer Glenn Knight - Singaporean lawyer and the first Director of the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) Rajesh Sreenivasan Subhas Anandan - prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore
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 Ravinder Singh - Singaporean former army general Sundaresh Menon - Chief Justice of Singapore; former Attorney-General of Singapore; first ethnic Indian to hold both posts T. S. Sinnathuray - former Singaporean Supreme Court judge Vijaya Kumar Rajah - current Attorney-General of Singapore
Literary figures Chandran Nair - Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO Edwin Thumboo Janadas Devan - Singaporean journalist 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 V. R. Gopala Pillai
Musicians Krissy - rapper and singer Lady Kash - award-winning international rapper and songwriter Paul Abisheganaden - conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient Priyadarshini - playback singer, researcher and performer whose works are predominantly in the Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi cinema industries. Shabir - award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, music composer and performer whose works are predominantly in Tamil
Politicians
Vivian Balakrishnan - Minister for Foreign Affairs S. Dhanabalan S. Iswaran S. Jayakumar - politician, diplomat, lawyer and author J B Jeyeratnam Devan Nair - 3rd President of Singapore Hri Kumar Nair Indranee Rajah - Minister, Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for National Development K. Shanmugam - Coordinating Minister for National Security of Singapore & Minister for Home Affairs Tharman Shanmugaratnam - current President of Singapore Pritam Singh - Leader of the Opposition, Secretary-General of the Workers' Party Paul Tambyah - chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party and infectious diseases consultant Hamid Razak - Parliamentian Inderjit Singh (Singaporean politician) Vikram Nair Dinesh Vasu Dash Murali Pillai Janil Puthucheary
Religious Rennis Ponniah - 9th Bishop of Singapore
Sportspeople
Athletics C Kunalan Kesavan Soon
Cricket Mahadevan Sathasivam Stacey Muruthi
Football and soccer Anumanthan Kumar - Singapore international footballer Ram Shanker Rhysh Roshan Rai Madhu Mohana - Singaporean footballer
Tennis Rheeya Doshi
Petanque Shanti Prakash Upadhayay
Others Satheesh Noel Gobidass, victim of an alleged murder case at Orchard Towers in 2019
See also
List of Malaysians of Indian descent
References