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List Of Malaysians
This is a list of Malaysians, people who are identified with Malaysia through residential, legal, historical or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability. By ethnicity or place of origin * Malaysians of Malay descent * Malaysians of Chinese descent * Malaysians of Indian descent By Malaysian state * Johor * Kedah * Kelantan * Kuala Lumpur * Malacca * Negeri Sembilan * Pahang * Penang * Perak * Perlis * Sabah * Sarawak * Selangor * Terengganu * Foreign-born Malaysians Academicians *Wang Gungwu * Lakssmitha Kumararaja * Khoo Kay Kim *Wu Teh Yao *Afifi al-Akiti * Khasnor Johan, historian *Chin Liew Ten * Jomo Kwame Sundaram *Danny Quah * Ungku Abdul Aziz * Lee Poh Ping Architects Artists Businesspeople *Tan Hiok Nee (1827–1902) *Chung Keng Quee (1827–1901) *Foo Choo Choon (1860–1921) *Tan Chay Yan (1870–1916) *Cheah Cheang Lim (1875–1948) *Loh Boon Siew (1915–1995) * Lim Goh Tong (1918–2007) * Choong Chin Liang (born 1920) *Robert Kuok (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysians
Malaysians are nationals and citizens who are identified with the country of Malaysia. Although citizens make up the majority of Malaysians, non-citizen residents and overseas Malaysians may also claim a Malaysian identity. The country is home to people of various national, ethnic and religious origins. As a result, many Malaysians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Malaysia. Majority of the population, however, belong to several clearly defined racial groups within the country with their own distinct cultures and traditions: Malays, Orang Asli (aboriginal population), Malaysian Chinese (primarily Han Chinese), Malaysian Indians (primarily Tamils). The majority of the non-Malay and non-aboriginal population in modern Malaysia is made up of immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of Portuguese, Dutch and then significantly longer British colonisation, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People From Perlis
The following is a list of prominent people who were born in or have lived in the Malaysian state of Perlis, or for whom Perlis is a significant part of their identity. A-L * Abdul Hamid Omar – first Chief Justice of Malaysia, born in Kuala Perlis * Abdul Latif Romly – athlete, born at Kampung Paya Kelubi * Che Rosli Che Mat – politician, born in Arau * Hani Mohsin – actor, born in Kangar M-Z References {{Perlis Perlis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram ( ta, ஜோமோ குவாமே சுந்தரம், Jōmō Kuvāmē Cuntaram) (born 1 December 1952), fondly known just as Jomo, is a prominent Malaysian economist. He is a senior adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute, visiting fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and an adjunct professor at the International Islamic University (IIUM). Education Jomo spent his early years studying at Westlands Primary School (1959–63), the Penang Free School (1964–66) and the Royal Military College (1967–70), when he was selected as Malaysia's delegate to the World Youth Forum in 1970. After graduating cum laude from Yale with a major in economics, Jomo went to the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and received his MPA in 1974 and then his PhD, before returning to teach in Malaysia at the Science University of Malaysia (USM). Jomo then returned to Harvard to complete his doctorate in late 1977 while teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chin Liew Ten
Chin Liew Ten , also known as C. L. Ten, is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and former Head of the Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was Professor of Philosophy (Personal Chair) and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia. Biography He was born in Malaysia, and is a graduate of the former University of Malaya (now National University of Singapore) in Singapore and of the London School of Economics. In 1967 he was a Recognized Student in Oxford University under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1989, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2000. He has published on legal and political philosophy with an emphasis on issues of liberty and toleration, and especially on John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khasnor Johan
Khasnor Johan is a Malaysian author and historian. Early and personal life Johan married Australian political scientist and author Harold Crouch in 1973. Education Johan studied at the University of Malaya (in Kuala Lumpur). Her master's thesis, ''The Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, 1905-1941: British Policy of Education for Employment in the Federated Malay States.'' was published in 1969. Like her husband, Johan attained her PhD at Monash University in Melbourne. Her thesis, published in 1974, was ''The Administrative Elite in the Federated Malay States: An Aspect of Malaysian Social History.'' Career From 1974 to 1992, Johan taught history at National University of Malaysia Crouch also taught at the university, his tenure from 1976 to 1990. In 1991 he began teaching at Australian National University in Canberra. Johan retired from teaching in 1992 and moved to Canberra. She was living in Canberra in 2002. Published works Johan published works between 1969 and 2005 in English. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afifi Al-Akiti
Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti (born 1976), also known as Shaykh Afifi,fatwa.mell (PDF) . Retrieved on 21 August 2011. is the KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies at the . He is also the Islamic Centre Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of , Oxford. He is the first |
Wu Teh Yao
Wu Teh Yao (, 1915–17 April 1994) was a Chinese political scientist. He was an educator and a specialist in Confucianism and political science. Education Wu completed his senior school certificate at the Anglo-Chinese School in Penang at the age of seventeen. He was admitted to the Chung Ling High School, a well-known bilingual school teaching in both Chinese and English, despite not knowing any Chinese, after an interview with the principal David Chen. After his graduation from Chung Ling in 1936, he was admitted to Nanking University (now known as Nanjing University) for a course of Bachelor of Arts under Chen's recommendation.Chung Ling High School Old Boys' (Singapore) Association: 40th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine 1965-2005; p35. 2005. He later obtained a Master of Arts degree from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a doctoral degree in political science from Harvard University in 1946. He was an active athlete during his secondary school years. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khoo Kay Kim
Khoo Kay Kim (; 28 March 1937 – 28 May 2019) was a Malaysians, Malaysian historian and academic of Malaysian Chinese, Chinese descent. He was honoured with Emeritus Professor title by the University of Malaya in 2001. In January 2011, Khoo was appointed Chancellor of KDU University College. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad described Khoo’s passing as a truly great loss to the country. Biography Khoo Kay Kim was born to Peranakan Chinese parents in Kampar, Perak, Malaysia on 28 March 1937. During his early education, he attend the English school in the morning before the Chinese school later in the afternoon. He received a Bachelor of Arts, BA, Master of Arts, MA, and a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in 1959, 1967, and 1974 respectively from the University of Malaya. His doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Beginnings of Political Extremism in Malaya 1915-1935'' (1974), where he was supervised bKennedy G. Tregonning the Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya. Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Gungwu
Wang Gungwu, (; born 9 October 1930) is a Chinese-Singaporean historian, sinologist, and writer. He is a historian of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word ''diaspora'' to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a " Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia. Background Wang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia to ethnic Chinese parents from Taizhou, Jiangsu and grew up in Ipoh, Malaysia. He completed his secondary education in Anderson School, an English medium school in Ipoh. Wang studied history in the University of Malaya, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He was a founding member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Foreign-born Malaysians
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List Of People From Terengganu
The following is a list of prominent people who were born in or have lived in the Malaysian state of Terengganu, or for whom Terengganu is a significant part of their identity. A * Anuar Manan – cyclist, born in Kuala Terengganu * Azian Mazwan Sapuwan - Singer * - cyclist * Aliaa Mansor - cyclist B C D E * Eman Manan - actorF G H *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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