20 Notable alumni of
National University of Malaysia

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The National University of Malaysia is 1422nd in the world, 314th in Asia, and 2nd in Malaysia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 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.

  1. Abdul Somad Batubara

    Abdul Somad Batubara
    Born in
    Indonesia Flag Indonesia
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    television producer'ālimuniversity teacherda'i
    Biography

    Abdul Somad Batubara is an Indonesian Islamic preacher, scholar and motivator from Asahan, North Sumatra. He is currently also serving as a lecturer at the Sultan Syarif Kasim II State Islamic University (UIN Suska) in Riau.

  2. Noor Hisham Abdullah

    Noor Hisham Abdullah
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
    In 1988 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
    Occupations
    officialsurgeon
    Biography

    Noor Hisham bin Abdullah is a Malaysian civil servant and endocrine surgeon who served as the Director-General of Health from March 2013 to his retirement in April 2023. Prior to his appointment as the Director-General, he served as the Deputy Director General of Health (Medical) from February 2008 to March 2013.

  3. Loke Siew Fook

    Loke Siew Fook
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  4. Fadhlina Sidek

    Fadhlina Sidek
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
    Graduated with Master of Laws
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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 the Malaysian history.

  5. Liow Tiong Lai

    Liow Tiong Lai
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Tan Sri Dato' Sri Liow Tiong Lai is a Malaysian politician 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.

  6. Mas Ermieyati Samsudin

    Mas Ermieyati Samsudin
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1976-.. (age 48)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Datuk Wira Hajah Mas Ermieyati binti Samsudin is a Malaysian politician who has served as Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) since April 2023 and 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 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 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 served as the 2nd Deputy Women Chief of BERSATU since August 2020 and the Women Youth Chief of the 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.

  7. Jemilah Mahmood

    Jemilah Mahmood
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    international forum participantgynaecologistobstetrician
    Biography

    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.

  8. Chong Sin Woon

    Chong Sin Woon
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Datuk 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 the 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 for 6 years in total, a term is fixed for 3 years. He is a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a major component party of the BN coalition and is aligned with the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition as well as its Secretary-General since September 2019 after the resignation of his predecessor Chew Mei Fun.

  9. Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man

    Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    politicianwriter'ālim
    Biography

    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 the first person who serves as an MP and an MLA of two different states. 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.

  10. Lee Boon Chye

    Lee Boon Chye
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Enrolled in the National University of Malaysia
    Graduated with Master of Medicine
    Occupations
    politiciancardiologist
    Biography

    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.

  11. Ramlee Awang Murshid

    Ramlee Awang Murshid
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    writer
    Biography

    Ramlee Awang Murshid is a Malaysian novelist of Bruneian Malay descent.

  12. Budiman Mohd Zohdi

    Budiman Mohd Zohdi
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Budiman bin Mohd Zohdi is a Malaysian politician. He was the Selangor state legislative assemblyman (MLA) for the Sungai Panjang constituency (2013-2018) and was also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Sungai Besar constituency (2016-2018) representing United Malay National Organization (UMNO), the main party in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition (2016-2018).

  13. Ahmad Kamal Abdullah

    Ahmad Kamal Abdullah
    Born in
    Singapore Flag Singapore
    Years
    1941-2021 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    literary criticpoetplaywrightwriter
    Biography

    Ahmad Kamal Abdullah was a Malaysian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic and Malaysian National Laureate (2011). He was known under the pseudonym Kemala.

  14. Wong Chin Huat

    Wong Chin Huat
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Occupations
    political scientistjournalist
    Biography

    Wong Chin Huat is a Malaysian political scientist, scholar, analyst, activist, commentator, columnist, observer and lecturer.

  15. Wong Hon Wai

    Wong Hon Wai
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  16. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame

    Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame
    Born in
    Somalia Flag Somalia
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  17. Sapawi Ahmad

    Sapawi Ahmad
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Datuk Sapawi bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician. He was the former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Sipitang constituency in Sabah, representing the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in the Barisan Nasional coalition from 2008 to May 2018.

  18. Mamad Puteh

    Mamad Puteh
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    physicianpolitician
    Biography

    Dr. Haji Mamad Puteh is a Malaysian politician and doctor who has served as Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar since May 2018 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 is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN coalition.

  19. Daniel Wa Wai How

    Daniel Wa Wai How
    Born in
    Malaysia Flag Malaysia
    Years
    1988-.. (age 36)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  20. Mohd Taufik Nordin

    Mohd Taufik Nordin
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    singer
    Biography

    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.