22 Notable alumni of
National University of Malaysia
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The National University of Malaysia is 1446th in the world, 319th in Asia, and 3rd in Malaysia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from the National University of Malaysia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Abdul Somad Batubara
- Occupations
- ʿālimtelevision producerda'iuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Abdul Somad Batubara is an Indonesian Islamic preacher, scholar and motivator from Asahan, North Sumatra. He served as a lecturer at the Sultan Syarif Kasim II State Islamic University (UIN Suska) in Riau.
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Noor Hisham Abdullah
- Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
- In 1988 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- surgeonofficial
- Biography
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Noor Hisham bin Abdullah is a Malaysian retired civil servant as well as breast and endocrine surgeon. He was the Director-General of Health and President of Malaysia Medical Council from March 2013 to his retirement in April 2023. Prior to the appointment, he served as the Deputy Director General of Health (Medical) from February 2008 to March 2013.
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Fadhlina Sidek
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
- Graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Fadhlina binti Sidek is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Education in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nibong Tebal since November 2022. She served as a Senator from September 2021 to her resignation in November 2022. She is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition. She has also served as the Women Chief of PKR since July 2022. She is also the first female Minister of Education in Malaysian history.
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Loke Siew Fook
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony Loke Siew Fook is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Transport for the first term in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and previously in the Pakatan Harapan administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Seremban since May 2013, Rasah from March 2008 to May 2013 and Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chennah since May 2013, Lobak from March 2004 to May 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He has served as the 6th Secretary-General of DAP since March 2022, 2nd Parliamentary Leader of DAP from July 2018 to March 2022 and previously as National Organising Secretary of DAP and Youth Chief of DAP or Chief of Socialist Youth (DAPSY). He was also the Leader of the Opposition of Negeri Sembilan and State Chairman of the PR of Negeri Sembilan.
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Liow Tiong Lai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liow Tiong Lai is a Malaysian politician and nutritionist who served as Minister of Transport, Minister of Health, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak as well as former Minister Azalina Othman Said from February 2006 to May 2018. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bentong from November 1999 to May 2018. In addition, he served as 10th President of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the ruling BN coalition, from December 2013 to November 2018.
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Mas Ermieyati Samsudin
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mas Ermieyati binti Samsudin is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) since April 2023 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Masjid Tanah since May 2013. She served as Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Parliament and Law in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar from August 2021 to the collapse of BN administration in November 2022, Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021 and the Deputy Minister of Tourism and Culture in the BN administration under former Prime Minister Najib Razak and former Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz from July 2015 to the collapse of the BN administration in May 2018. She is a member and the Women Chief of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the PN coalition and was a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. She has previously served as the 2nd Vice Women Chief of BERSATU from August 2020 to October 2024 and the Women Youth Chief of UMNO from October 2013 to June 2018. After the defeat of BN to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition coalition in the 2018 general election, she resigned from UMNO in 2018 and joined BERSATU in 2019. She is also the second female PAC Chairperson after Noraini Ahmad in Malaysian history.
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Jemilah Mahmood
- Occupations
- gynecologistobstetrician
- Biography
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Tan Sri Jemilah binti Mahmood is a Malaysian physician. She has served as Pro-Chancellor of the Heriot-Watt University Malaysia since September 2021, Professor and Executive Director of Sunway Centre for Planetary Health since August 2021, and Senior Fellow at the Adrienne-Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center. She has been a Board Member of Roche since 2022. She served as Special Advisor to the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin on Public Health from March 2020 to August 2021 and Under-Secretary General for Partnerships in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) from January 2016 to 2020. Before joining the IFRC, she served as Chief of the Secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit at the United Nations in New York, heading the humanitarian branch at the United National Population Fund, Chief of the Humanitarian Response Branch at UNFPA in 2011, President of the Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy Malaysia) from its foundation in June 1999 to a decade later in 2009. Mercy Malaysia is a medical charity she founded in June 1999, inspired by the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). In 2008, she was one of the 16 members appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations to Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund.
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Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianʿālim
- Biography
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Tuan Ibharim bin Tuan Man or commonly known as Tuan Ibrahim bin Tuan Man is a Malaysian politician, lecturer and teacher who has served as the State Leader of the Opposition of Pahang since December 2022, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kubang Kerian since May 2018 and Member of the Pahang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Cheka since November 2022. He served as the Minister of Environment and Water for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021 as well as the MLA for Jengka from November 1999 to March 2004. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of PN coalition. He has also served as the Deputy President of PAS since June 2015.
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Mohd Na'im Mokhtar
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- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- ʿālimpolitician
- Biography
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Mohd Na'im bin Mokhtar is a Malaysian politician, lawyer and legal scholar who has served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Religious Affairs in the Anwar Ibrahim cabinet as well as a Senator since December 2022. He served as 4th Chief Judge of the Syariah Court from April 2019 to his appointment as a minister in December 2022. He is one of the two independent Cabinet ministers alongside the Minister of Finance II Amir Hamzah Azizan. He was the sole independent Cabinet minister before the 2023 cabinet reshuffle.
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Chong Sin Woon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chong Sin Woon is a Malaysian politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Education II from a Cabinet reshuffle in July 2015 to the collapse of the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration in May 2018. He served as a Senator from April 2014 to April 2017 for the first term and reappointed to serve from April 2017 to April 2020 for the second term until his resignation in April 2018 to contest in the 2018 General Election. He is a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party of the BN coalition as well as its Secretary-General since September 2019 after the resignation of his predecessor Chew Mei Fun.
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Idris Ahmad
- Occupations
- ʿālimpolitician
- Biography
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Idris bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bagan Serai since November 2022. He served as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Religious Affairs in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022, Senator from June 2020 to his resignation in November 2022 and the MP for Bukit Gantang from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member and one of the Vice Presidents of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) and formerly Gagasan Sejahtera (GS), Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalitions.
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Ramlee Awang Murshid
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ramlee Awang Murshid is a Malaysian novelist of Bruneian Malay descent.
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Lee Boon Chye
- Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
- Graduated with Master of Medicine
- Occupations
- cardiologistpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Boon Chye is a Malaysian politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Health in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gopeng from March 2008 to November 2022. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition.
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Budiman Mohd Zohdi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Budiman bin Mohd Zohdi is a Malaysian politician and youth activist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Besar from June 2016 and Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sungai Panjang from May 2013 to May 2018 respectively. He is a member of the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO), a c component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
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Wong Hon Wai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wong Hon Wai is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Penang State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state administration under former Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng from March 2008 to May 2013 as well as in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow and Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Paya Terubong since August 2023. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bukit Bendera from May 2018 to November 2022, and the MLA for Air Itam from March 2008 to May 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH and formerly PR coalitions.
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Ahmad Kamal Abdullah
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightpoetliterary critic
- Biography
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Ahmad Kamal Abdullah was a Malaysian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic and Malaysian National Laureate (2011). He was known under the pseudonym Kemala.
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Wong Chin Huat
- Born in
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Malaysia - Occupations
- journalistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Wong Chin Huat is a Malaysian political scientist, scholar, analyst, activist, commentator, columnist, observer and lecturer.
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Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame is a Somali politician and a constitutional expert. He is currently the leader of the Wadajir Party. He served as a member of the Somali Parliament from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Planning and International relations under President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed between 2009 and 2010. He contested in the 2017 Somali presidential elections against Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. Warsame was one of the most prominent opposition politicians in Somalia, and a fierce critic of the Farmajo administration, in 2017–2022.
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Sapawi Ahmad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Datuk Sapawi bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Sipitang constituency in Sabah, representing the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from 2008 to May 2018. He currently an official member of GAGASAN, a component party of GRS since January 2024. He become supreme council members of both GRS Sindumin-Sipitang and GAGASAN RAKYAT Sipitang.
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Mamad Puteh
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Mamad Puteh is a Malaysian politician and doctor who has served as Deputy Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar and Member Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar since August 2023 as well as Member of the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kuala Berang from November 1999 to March 2004 and again since May 2018. He served as Member of the Terengganu State EXCO in the PN state administration under Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri from May 2018 to his demotion in August 2023. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition. His appointment as the Terengganu Deputy EXCO Member in August 2023 is a demotion that is rare in Malaysian politics.
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Daniel Wa Wai How
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Wa Wai How is a Malaysian politician. He is a member of Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
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Mohd Taufik Nordin
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Mohd Taufik bin Nordin also commercially known as Mohd Taufic Nordin. He is a Melaka born Malaysian composer and independent nasyid singer. He is considered to be among of the new top notch individuals developing the Malaysian nasyid independent music industry.
