The Most Famous
PHYSICIANS from Singapore
This page contains a list of the greatest Singaporean Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 726 Physicians, 1 of which were born in Singapore. This makes Singapore the birth place of the 58th most number of Physicians behind Colombia, and Moldova.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Singaporean Physicians of all time. This list of famous Singaporean Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Wu Lien-teh (1879 - 1960)
With an HPI of 57.63, Wu Lien-teh is the most famous Singaporean Physician. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng5 Lin4 Dak1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11. He is the inventor of the Wu mask, which is the forerunner of today's N95 respirator. Wu was the first medical student of Chinese descent to study at the University of Cambridge. He was also the first Malayan nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1935.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Singaporean physicians born between 1879 and 1879. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Singaporean physicians include Wu Lien-teh.
