BORN 1904 INDUCTED 2016 CATEGORY Advocacy & Activism THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Pioneer champion of women’s rights Tan Cheng Hiong, better known after her marriage in 1931 as Mrs George Lee, was the first president of the...
BORN 1929 INDUCTED 2016 CATEGORY Sports THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Singapore’s first lady of netball When Tan Yoon Yin went to the Registry of Societies in 1962 to set up the Singapore Women’s Netball Association, the man who handled...
BORN 1949 INDUCTED 2016 CATEGORY Arts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Violet Oon Singapore’s food ambassador Violet Oon has been just about everything there is to be in the food business – critic, author, publisher, speaker,...
BORN 1948 INDUCTED 2016 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Orthopaedic surgeon and medical aid worker extraordinaire She was busy with her work as an orthopaedic surgeon in London when, in August 1982, an international appeal...
