# List of Singaporean Indians

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

## 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 Environment and Water Resources
* 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
* K. Shanmugam - Minister for Foreign 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

## 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