List of Famous people born in Singapore

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Kygo

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll
Born on September 11, 1991 (age 31)
Born in Singapore

Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, better known by his stage name Kygo, is a Norwegian DJ, songwriter, and record producer. He garnered international attention with his December 2013 remix of the track "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran and his December 2014 single "Firestone" featuring Conrad Sewell. In late 2015, he became the fastest artist to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, and by June 2016, he had reached 2 billion streams on Spotify.

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Paul Lim

First Name Paul
Last Name Lim
Born on January 25, 1954 (age 69)
Born in Singapore

Paul Lim Leong Hwa, known simply as Paul Lim, is a Singaporean professional darts player. He was the first player to hit a perfect nine-dart finish during the Embassy World Darts Championship, which he achieved in 1990 during his second round match against Jack McKenna. Lim won £52,000 for his nine-darter, which was £28,000 more than Phil Taylor won for winning the tournament. His nine-darter remained the only nine-dart game to have been achieved in either version of the world championships, until Raymond van Barneveld hit one against Jelle Klaasen in the quarter-final of the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship. It was however the only nine-dart finish ever achieved at the BDO World Darts Championship as no other was achieved prior to the conclusion of the its final edition in 2020.

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Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari

First Name Muhammad
Last Name Jahari
Born on October 25, 1986 (age 36)
Born in Singapore

Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari is a Singaporean international football referee. He has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012, and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches. Taqi Aljaafari has also refereed matches in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.

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Hazel Poa

First Name Hazel
Last Name Poa
Born on August 27, 1970 (age 52)
Born in Singapore

Hazel Poa Koon Koon is a Singaporean politician and businesswoman who previously served as vice chairman of the Progress Singapore Party. She is a Non-constituency Member of Parliament of the 14th Parliament of Singapore since 16 July 2020.

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David Ong

First Name David
Last Name Ong
Born on May 19, 1961 (age 61)
Born in Singapore

David Ong Kim Huat, BBM, has served as a Member of Parliament for Jurong Group Representation Constituency (GRC), Adviser to Jurong GRC Grassroots Organisations (GROs) and Chairman of the Jurong Town Council since 2011. His term ended abruptly on 12 March 2016 citing personal reasons in a letter which is published by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

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Chiam See Tong

First Name Chiam
Born on March 12, 1935 (age 88)
Born in Singapore

Chiam See Tong is a Singaporean former politician under the Singapore People's Party and lawyer who served as the second longest-serving opposition Member of the Parliament (MP) after Low Thia Khiang, having represented the constituency of Potong Pasir in Parliament from 1984 to 2011.

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Peter Senior

First Name Peter
Last Name Senior
Born on July 31, 1959 (age 63)
Born in Singapore

Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world.

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Carrie Perrodo

Ka Yee Wong
First Name Carrie
Born on January 1, 1951 (age 72)
Born in Singapore

Ka Yee "Carrie" Wong Perrodo is a Hong Kong-born French billionaire heiress and businesswoman. She is the owner of the oil group Perenco, which was founded by her late husband Hubert.

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Wong Shoon Keat

First Name Wong
Last Name Keat
Born on April 30, 1957 (age 65)
Born in Singapore

Wong Shoon Keat was a badminton player from Singapore. He won Singapore's first ever badminton gold at the 1983 SEA Games and to date, is Singapore’s only title winner in the men’s singles event. That year, he pulled off an upset over reigning world champion Icuk Sugiarto of Indonesia, and beat another Indonesian star, Hastomo Arbi in the final. His son, Derek Wong, was Singapore’s top male shuttler.

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S. Jayakumar

First Name S.
Last Name Jayakumar
Born on August 12, 1939 (age 83)
Born in Singapore

Shunmugam Jayakumar, often known as S. Jayakumar, is a Singaporean retired politician, diplomat, lawyer and author who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2004 and 2009. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedok SMC between 1980 and 1988, the Bedok ward of Bedok GRC between 1988 and 1997, and East Coast GRC between 1997 and 2011.

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John Bennet

First Name John
Last Name Bennet
Born on June 4, 1957 (age 65)
Born in Singapore

Donald John Logan Bennet,, known as John Bennet, is a British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, who specialises in the Aegean civilisations. He has been Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield since 2004, and Director of the British School at Athens since 2015. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oxford.

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Kendrick Lee Yen Hui

First Name Kendrick
Last Name Hui
Born on October 8, 1984 (age 38)
Born in Singapore

Kendrick Lee Yen Hui is one of Singapore's best badminton players.

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Vanessa Neo Yu Yan

First Name Vanessa
Last Name Yan
Born on June 19, 1987 (age 35)
Born in Singapore

Vanessa Neo Yu Yan is a badminton player from Singapore specializing in doubles. She represented Singapore in 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the team competition.

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Janice Koh

First Name Janice
Born on April 26, 1969 (age 53)
Born in Singapore

Janice Koh is a Singaporean actress and a former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.

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Selena Tan

First Name Selena
Last Name Tan
Born on November 30, 1970 (age 52)
Born in Singapore

Selena Tan is a Singaporean executive producer, director, writer and actress. She is best known as one of the cabaret trio, the Dim Sum Dollies. In 2000, Selena founded Dream Academy, which produced a variety of performance shows.

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Goh Cheng Liang

First Name Goh
Last Name Liang
Born on November 30, 1926 (age 96)
Born in Singapore
Net Worth $21.7B

Goh Cheng Liang is a Singaporean billionaire businessman who founded Wuthelam Holdings, which manufactures paint and coatings.

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