Chinese Singaporeans
- Gan Eng Seng
- Lee Kuan Yew - Founding father of Singapore
- Goh Keng Swee - Built up our defence
- Lim Bo Seng
Indian Singaporeans
- Shunmugam Jayakumar
- Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- Sinnathamby Rajaratnam "S. Rajaratnam", (25 February 1915 – 22 February 2006), was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85, and a long-serving Minister and member of the Cabinet from 1959-88. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of independent Singapore as it achieved self-government in 1959 and later independence in 1965.
- Sellapan Ramanathan 6th president “S R Nathan"
- Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Malayali Singaporeans
- Devan Nair 3rd president
Malay Singaporeans
- Zubir Said - Person to pen our National Anthem
- Yusof Ishak - First President of Singapore
- Adnan Bin Saidi
Singaporean film directors
- Eric Khoo
- Jack Neo
- Royston Tan
Singaporean musicians
- Kit Chan
- Ken Lim
Singaporean singers
- Kit Chan
- Rahimah Rahim
- Stella
- Stefanie Sun
- Fann Wong
- Taufik Batisah
- Chen Wei Lian Kelvin
- Dick Lee
- Lin Jun Jie
- Hady Mirza
- Jeremy Monteiro
Singaporean television personalities
- Michelle Chong
- Dick Lee
- Mark Lee (comedian)
- Hossan Leong
- Jack Neo
- Adrian Pang
- Joanne Peh
- Ris Low
- Gurmit Singh
- Fann Wong
- Christopher Lee
Singaporean writers
- James Lee (Mr. Midnight)
- Russell Lee (True Singapore Ghost Stories)
- Chandran Nair
- Edwin Thumboo
- Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai
