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Yeoh
Yeoh is one spelling of the Hokkien pronunciation (; IPA: ) of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Chinese Pinyin as Yang (surname), Yáng (; see that article for the history of the surname). Another common spelling is Yeo. Both the spellings Yeoh and Yeo are common in southeast Asia, for example among Malaysian Chinese. People Notable people with the surname Yeoh include: * Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978), British playwright *Bernard Yeoh (born 1969), Malaysian sport shooter *Brenda Yeoh, Singaporean academic and geographer * Cheryl Yeoh (born 1983), Malaysian entrepreneur in California *Dawn Yeoh (born 1986), Singaporean actress *Francis Yeoh (born 1954), Malaysian businessman, son of Yeoh Tiong Lay *Hannah Yeoh (born 1979), Malaysian politician *Joanne Yeoh (born 1977), Malaysian violinist *Melvin Yeoh (born 1981), Malaysian mixed martial artist *Michelle Yeoh (socialite), Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian businesswoman, granddaughter of Yeoh Tiong Lay *Michelle Yeoh (born 1962), Academy Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, ( ; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts, such as '' Yes, Madam'' (1985), '' Police Story 3: Supercop'' (1992) and ''Holy Weapon'' (1993). She gained international recognition for her roles in the James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997) and in Ang Lee's martial arts film ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2000). The latter role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress nomination. Yeoh's other works include ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), ''Reign of Assassins'' (2010), ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' (2011), '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny'' (2016), and '' The Lady'' (2011), where she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi. She went on to have supporting roles in the romantic comedies ''Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018) and ''Last Christmas'' (2019), and the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Yeoh
Cheryl Sew Hoy ( Yeoh; born 31 May 1983) is an entrepreneur, speaker and angel investor, best known for being the founding CEO of the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC), a government-funded agency to support entrepreneurship in Malaysia and ASEAN. She co-founded Reclip. It, which was acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013. Yeoh served as an independent non-executive director of Flexiroam Limited, an Australia-based telecommunications company from 2016 to 2018. She is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at Silicon Valley Bank, and an advisor to various startups including blockchain infrastructure company Tendermint, the team that built Cosmos Network and Kenzie Academy. Yeoh has been credited with helping put Malaysia and its startups on the world map. In 2012, Yeoh was named "Top 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know" by Mashable. Yeoh is the founder of the #MovingForward campaign which encourages VCs to commit to a diverse, inclusive and harassme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Yeoh
Rebekah Yeoh Pei Wenn is a Malaysian social entrepreneur, businesswoman and philanthropist. She is a Corporate Finance Director at YTL Corporation, Deputy Curator at Global Shapers Community Kuala Lampur, and the founder of Nimble Fingers Cambodia and Recyclothes. Biography Yeoh is the daughter of businessman Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh and Puan Sri Datin Paduka Rosaline Yeoh. She attended Garden International School, where she was awarded The International General Certificate of Secondary Education Brilliance Award in 2008. She graduated with a degree in Pure Economics from the London School of Economics. She is a younger sister of Ruth Yeoh and is Rachel Yeoh and Michelle Yeoh's first cousin. Yeoh works as a corporate finance manager at her family's company YTL Corporation, which was founded by her paternal grandfather Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay. Yeoh's philanthropic work focuses on underprivileged children in India and Cambodia, using economics to work against soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoh Tiong Lay
Yeoh Tiong Lay (; 18 December 1929 – 18 October 2017) was a Malaysian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He founded YTL Corporation, Malaysia's largest conglomerate, with interests in construction, utilities, hotels, property development and technology. YTL is based primarily in Malaysia but has extensive operations in Asia, Australia and the United Kingdom, where it owns the utility Wessex Water. In 2013, he established the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law at King's College, London with a gift of US$11 million. Early life A Malaysian Chinese of Kinmen and Zhangzhou Hokkien roots, Yeoh Tiong Lay was the third eldest child in his family. He completed his secondary school education at Hin Hua High School in Klang, Malaysia. Career Yeoh was one of the richest individuals in Malaysia; his family is estimated to have a net worth of US$3 billion as of October 2017. Personal life Yeoh married Tan Kai Yong in 1952 and they were married for 65 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Yeoh
Ruth Yeoh Pei Cheen is a Malaysian businesswoman, philanthropist and environmentalist. She is currently the Executive Director at YTL Singapore and Director of YTL Corporation's carbon credit and clean development mechanism consultancy. She is the co-author of ''Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability''. Early life and family Ruth Yeoh is the oldest child of Malaysian billionaire Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh and Puan Sri Datin Paduka Rosaline Yeoh. Her paternal grandfather was Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay, the founder of YTL Corporation. She is the older sister of Rebekah Yeoh and a first cousin of Rachel Yeoh and Michelle Yeoh. She graduated with a degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Nottingham and has a degree in Management from the Cass Business School at City, University of London. Career Yeoh began working for her family's company, YTL Corporation, in 2005. She serves as the executive director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Yeoh (socialite)
Michelle Yeoh is a Malaysian heiress, socialite, model and fashion influencer. Early life and family Michelle Yeoh is the daughter of Dato' Sri Michael Yeoh and Datin Sri Tina Yeoh. She is a niece of Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh and the granddaughter of billionaire Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay, the founder of YTL Corporation. She is of Malaysian Chinese ancestry. She is a fraternal twin; her sister is Rachel Yeoh. She is a first cousin of Ruth Yeoh and Rebekah Yeoh. Yeoh and her sister debuted at the Queen Charlotte's Ball at Kensington Palace in 2015, becoming the first twins and first Malaysians to do so. Career In 2017, she and her sister walked the runway for Dolce & Gabbana's Fall 2017 fashion show in Milan Fashion Week. In August 2017, she was featured on the cover of ''Vogue Japan'' along with the other models from the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show. She and her sister were featured in the March 2017 fashion issue of '' Hong Kong Tatler'' and on the cover of ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Yeoh
Rachel Yeoh is a Malaysian socialite, heiress, model, and fashion influencer. Early life and family Rachel Yeoh was born in Kuala Lumpur and has a fraternal twin sister, Michelle. A member of a wealthy Malaysian Chinese family, she is the daughter of Dato' Sri Michael Yeoh and Datin Sri Tina Yeoh. Her paternal grandfather is businessman Tan Sri Dato' Seri Yeoh Tiong Lay, the founder of YTL Corporation. She is a niece of Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh and a first cousin of Ruth Yeoh and Rebekah Yeoh. In 2015, she and her sister were the first Malaysians, and the first twins, to debut at Queen Charlotte's Ball at Kensington Palace. Career Yeoh serves alongside her sister on the advisory committee for the British Fashion Council, which determines the allocation of funds and grants given to designers. In 2017, she walked as a model for Dolce & Gabbana's Fall 2017 fashion show in Milan Fashion Week. In August 2017 she was featured on the cover of ''Vogue Japan''. She and her si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Yeoh
Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978) is a British Chinese playwright. Biography Born near London, England, his father came from Ipoh, Malaysia and mother from Singapore. His grandfather, Datuk Yeoh Cheang Lee was the first non-European chairman of the Perak Turf Club, in Ipoh, Malaysia. Yeoh won a scholarship to Westminster School and went on to study Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, the same college as his father and grand father. He then went on to Harvard University as a Herchel Smith scholar studying dramaturgy and play writing. Yeoh is also among the first generation of writers to have come from the Soho Theatre Young Writers’ Programme. He has also been on the Royal Court Theatre’s writers’ programme led in 2005 by playwright Jane Bodie. Yeoh has directed several plays and has been involved with writing groups and mentorships such as Royal Court Writers, Soho Young Writers, BBC Radio, Moti Roti, Talawa and Yellow Ink. He sat on the board and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Yeoh
Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan (; born 9 January 1979) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022. Previously, she served as the Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community Development in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Segambut since May 2018. She also served as 10th Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly from June 2013 to April 2018 and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Subang Jaya from March 2008 to May 2018. She is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH-led Unity Government coalition. She has served as the Assistant National Publicity Secretary of DAP since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoh Ghim Seng
Yeoh Ghim Seng ( zh, s=杨锦成, poj=Iôⁿ Gím-sêng, p=Yáng Jǐnchéng, first=s,poj,p) was a Singaporean politician who served as Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore between 1970 and 1989. He is one of the longest-serving speakers of any parliament in the world. Yeoh served briefly as the acting president of Singapore between the death of Yusof Ishak on 23 November 1970 and the inauguration of President Benjamin Sheares on 2 January 1971. Early life Yeoh received his early education at St. Michael's Institution in his hometown of Ipoh (in Malaysia) and at Penang Free School. He studied medicine at Cambridge University in the 1940s and was on attachment to hospitals there before becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1950. Career In 1951, Yeoh returned to Malaya to become consultant surgeon to the Singapore General Hospital. When he was appointed professor of surgery at the then University of Malaya in 1955, he was one of the first loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoh (hyperelastic Model)
image:Yeoh model comp.png, 300px, Yeoh model prediction versus experimental data for natural rubber. Model parameters and experimental data froPolymerFEM.com] The Yeoh hyperelastic material modelYeoh, O. H., 1993, "Some forms of the strain energy function for rubber," ''Rubber Chemistry and technology'', Volume 66, Issue 5, November 1993, Pages 754-771. is a phenomenological model for the deformation of nearly incompressible, nonlinear elastic materials such as rubber. The model is based on Ronald Rivlin's observation that the elastic properties of rubber may be described using a strain energy density function which is a power series in the strain invariants I_1, I_2, I_3 of the Cauchy-Green deformation tensors.Rivlin, R. S., 1948, "Some applications of elasticity theory to rubber engineering", in ''Collected Papers of R. S. Rivlin vol. 1 and 2'', Springer, 1997. The Yeoh model for incompressible rubber is a function only of I_1. For compressible rubbers, a dependence on I_3 is ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Yeoh
Francis Yeoh Sock Ping (born 23 August 1954) is a Malaysian businessman, and the eldest son of late Malaysia billionaire Yeoh Tiong Lay. He was appointed a managing director of YTL Corporation in 1988 and grew it into a multi-disciplinary conglomerate comprising six listed entities. YTL Corporation Berhad, YTL Power International Berhad, YTL Land & Development Berhad, YTL Hospitality REIT, Lafarge Malaysia Berhad and Starhill Global REIT have a combined Market Capitalisation of approximately RM29.1 billion (US$7.1 billion) and total assets of RM74.7 billion (US$18.2 billion). YTL Group owns and manages regulated utilities, real estate and infrastructure assets. Besides managing YTL Group's core listed entities, Tan Sri Francis is Executive Chairman of YTL Starhill Global REIT Management Limited, the manager for Starhill Global REIT. He is Chairman of YTL PowerSeraya Private Limited, which accounts for a 20% share of the Singapore Electricity market. He is Chairman of Wesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
