The Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery ( ms, Tanah Perkuburan Islam Jalan Ampang;
Jawi: تانه ڤرقبورن اسلام جالن امڤاڠ) is a cemetery at the
Kuala Lumpur
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city centre,
Malaysia
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. It is located at
Jalan Ampang
Jalan Ampang or Ampang Road (Selangor state route B31) is a major road in Klang Valley region, Selangor and Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Built in the 1880s, it is one of the oldest roads in the Klang Valley. It is a main road to ...
near
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
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. The cemetery was established on 1819.
Notable burials
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Tan Sri Datuk Amar P. Ramlee – film actor, director, singer, and songwriter. ''(died 1973)''
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Tan Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad (Za'aba) – Malaysian writer and linguist. ''(died 1973)''
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Puan Sri Datin Amar Salmah Ismail (Saloma) – Singapore-born Malaysian film actress, singer and also wife of Tan Sri P. Ramlee. ''(died 1983)''
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Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Hashim –
Inspector General of Police
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''(died 1974, in an assassination carried out by communist subversives during the
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–89)
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* Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)
* Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)
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)''
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Tun Abdul Malek Yusuf – Second Malacca state
Yang di-Pertua Negeri
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(Governor) (1959–71) ''(died 1977)''
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Tan Sri Dato' (Dr.) Haji Mubin Sheppard – Former Director-General of the National Archives of Malaysia, renowned historian and academician. ''(died 1994)''
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Tun Ismail Mohd Ali – Second
Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia ''(died 1998)''
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Nasir P. Ramlee – son of late
P. Ramlee
Tan Sri Datuk Amar Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh (later Ramlee bin Puteh) (22 March 1929 – 29 May 1973), better known by his stage name P. Ramlee (Puteh Ramlee), was a Malaysian actor, filmmaker, musician, and composer famous in both m ...
''(died 2008)''
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Tan Sri Ainuddin Wahid – educationist and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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(UTM) Vice Chancellor ''(died 2013)''
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Tan Sri Dr Salma Ismail – first Malay woman doctor ''(died 2014)''
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Mustapha Maarof
Dato' Mustapha Azahari bin Maarof ( Jawi: مصطفى ازاهاري معروف; 1 January 1935 – 15 December 2014) was a Malaysian actor. He appeared in Singapore’s '' Hang Tuah'' (1959), '' 1957: Hati Malaya'' (2007) and '' Chermin'' (2007), ...
– veteran actor ''(died 2014)''
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Mariani Ismail
Siti Mariam binti Ismail ( Jawi: سيتي مريم اسماعيل ; 20 April 1933 – 1 December 2015), better known by her stage name Mariani, was an early Malaysian-Singaporean Malay actress, singer and model popular during the 1950s and 1960s ...
– veteran actress and also sister of late actress
Salmah Ismail (Saloma) ''(died 2015)''
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Tan Sri S.M. Salim – veteran singer ''(died 2016)''
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Tan Sri Elyas Omar – third
Mayor of Kuala Lumpur
The Mayor of Kuala Lumpur ( ms, Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur) is the chief executive for the local government of Kuala Lumpur, the capital and largest city of Malaysia. Each year, the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur presents the Kuala Lumpur city budget to the ...
''(died 2018)''
References
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Cemeteries in Kuala Lumpur
Muslim cemeteries