Sejak penubuhan Queen's Scholar hingga ia dihentikan pada 1957 ramai penerima berasal dari Singapura. Berikut adalah senarai Queen's Scholar yang dipetik dari sumber berikut (e-resources sg -link):
Notable recipients;
1887: Lim Boon Keng, first Straits Chinese medical doctor,
community leader, philanthropist, president of Amoy University.
1888: Song Ong Siang, first Straits Chinese barrister and
knight, historian.
1889: CM Philips, principal of Raffles College.
1904: Noel Clarke, Eurasian Association president,
legislative councillor.
1904 (FMS): Chan Sze Jin, lawyer, legislative councillor.
1908: Tun Leong Kew Yoh, Governor of Malacca.
1924: Tan Ah Tan, Singapore’s first local Puisne Judge in
the High Court.
1929: Tan Thoon Lip, Singapore’s first local Registrar of
the Singapore Supreme Court.
1930: Maggie Tan, first female to win the Queen's
Scholarship.
1935: Ahmad Mohammed Ibrahim, state advocate general who
drafted Singapore pre-1965 constitution, and served as Attorney-General and an
Ambassador.
1937: Ismail bin Mohammed Ali, first Malay Governor of Bank
Negara.
1937 (FMS): Lim Chong Eu, served as Chief Minister of
Penang.
1938: Lim Kok Ann, University of Singapore’s youngest
professor, later its Dean of Medicine.
1940: Maurice Baker, educator, ambassador, pro-chancellor.42
1946: EW Barker, Speaker of Parliament, Minister for Law,
National Development, Environment, Labour.
1947: Kwa Geok Choo, co-founder, Lee and Lee; leading
conveyancing lawyer; wife of the future prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
1955: Hwang Peng Yuan, Economic Development Board chairman,
Temasek Holdings vice chairman, ambassador.
1955: Wong Lin Ken, first Singaporean Ambassador to the US
and the UN, Home Affairs Minister, historian. [author the malayan tin industry to 1914]
1957: Lim Pin, Vice Chancellor, National University of Singapore.
Fellows
1940: Benjamin Sheares, leading obstetrician, second
President of Singapore.
1941: Kenneth M. Byrne, first PAP Minister for Labour and
Law.
1954: Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, leading pathologist; Dean
of Medicine, University of Singapore.
Baca juga overseas chinese in the british empire (link).
The three editors of Straits Chinese Magazine (from left), Song Ong Siang, Queen's Scholar 1888; Dr Wu Lien-Teh, Queen's Scholar 1896; and Dr Lim Boon Keng, Queen's Scholar 1887
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