BORN1950 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYArts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME THAM YEW CHIN Award-winning writer Tham Yew Chin is the best-known Singapore writer in China. Going by the pen name of You Jin, the former journalist and...
BORN1974 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYUniformed Professions THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME GAN SIOW HUANG First female Brigadier-General in the SAF When Gan Siow Huang became, in July 2015, the first woman Brigadier-General in the Singapore Armed...
BORN1965 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYUniformed Professions THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME FLORENCE CHUA SIEW LIAN First female Deputy Commissioner of Police After 29 years in the Police Force, Florence Chua made history in June 2018 when she...
BORN1955 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYSports THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME KANDASAMY JAYAMANI Queen of long-distance running In September 1973, when the SEA Games were held in Singapore, 17-year-old Kandasamy Jayamani skipped school and went to...
BORN1941 INDUCTED2019 CATEGORYSports THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME GLORY BARNABAS The Accidental Athlete Glory Barnabas’s running career began unexpectedly in 1963. Then a trainee teacher, she was asked to join the Teachers Training...
