Clementi Secondary School () is a secondary institution in

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. Founded by the 17th British

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Sir

Cecil Clementi Sir Cecil Clementi (; 1 September 1875 – 5 April 1947) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1930, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements from 1930 to 1934. Early lif ...

, the school was the first to use Chinese as the primary medium of instruction in Hong Kong.

History

The

, who had a profound interest in the Chinese language, decided to establish a school using Chinese as the main medium of instruction. In 1926, Government Vernacular Middle School (官立漢文中學) was founded. Government Vernacular Middle School is the first government school to use Chinese as the main medium of instruction. Li King Hong, the then-Chinese language inspector of schools, was appointed as the first principal of the school. During

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, the school suspended its operations under the

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. After the war, the school was renamed Government Vernacular Senior Middle School (官立漢文高級中學). It was renamed again in 1951 to Clementi Middle School (金文泰中學) and in 1988 to Clementi Secondary School, after the governor. The school has been relocated several times: * 1926-1927 26-28 Hospital Road (now site of Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College) * 1927-1941 Pok Fu Lam Road * 1945-1946 Bridge Street (now

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Bridge Centre) * 1946-1948 Wood Road (formerly Government Trade School Building c. 1937) * 1948-1961 28 Kennedy Road It has been at the current site of 30

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since September 23, 1961. The school principal is currently Mrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee, who succeeded Ms. Li Sui-wah in 2013.

Notable alumni

Politicians, government officials, and legislators

* Sir

Kenneth Fung Ping-fan Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan, CBE, KStJ, LLD, DSocSc, JP (; 28 May 1911 – 16 May 2002) was a prominent Hong Kong politician and businessman. Biography Fung was born on 28 May 1911 to Fung Ping-shan, a co-founder of the Bank of East Asia, with ...

, Former Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in

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, Executive Council and Legislative Council. *

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, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force. *

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, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force. *

Leung Kwok-hung Leung Kwok-hung ( zh, t=梁國雄; born 27 March 1956), also known by his nickname "Long Hair" (), is a Hong Kong politician and social activist. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Legislative Council, representing the N ...

, Politician, Member of

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, Chairman of the

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. *

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, Politician,

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, Member of Executive Council (2004 to 2008),

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. *

Eddie Ng Hak-kim Eddie Ng Hak-kim GBS, JP (, born c. 1953) is a former Secretary for Education in the Hong Kong Government. From 2017, he is a temporary adjunct professor at the MBA Centre of Shanghai University.Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), previously known as the Hong Kong Examinations Authority (HKEA) before 2002, is a statutory body of the Hong Kong Government responsible for the administration of public examination ...

(HKEAA)

Academics

* Prof.

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, physicist, a graduate of the university preparatory class of Clementi.

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Laureate for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall Effect. * Prof.

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, physicist. Enrico Fermi and Vilas Professor of Physics at

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and winner of 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the

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for "the first evidence of three-jet events in E+E-collisions at PETRA" * Prof. Wong Cheuk-Yin, Physicist, a fellow of

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, former chairman of Overseas Chinese Physics Association, U.S.A., now working at

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* Prof. Ng Cheuk-Yiu, Chemist, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,

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* Prof. Leung Pak-wah Edwin, medalist of

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and Professor of Asian Studies at

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, U.S.A.

Business

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, Chinese-American billionaire businesswoman and electrical engineer

External links

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