Top Celebrity Names Starting With Tan

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   Tan Cheng Bock

   Age 72 Male
   

   Member of Parliament

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   Tan Cheng Bock is a politician and physician from Singapore. Tan was a People's Action Party Member of Parliament in Singapore politics for 26 years (1980–2006) and the first non cabinet minister elected into the People's Action Party Central Executive Committee (1987–96).… read more

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   Tan Boon Teik

   1929 - 2012 Male
   

   Former Attorney-general of Singapore

   
   

   'Tan Boon Teik,, was the former Attorney-General of Singapore, holding the office on an acting basis from 1967 to 1968, and the full position from 1969 through to 1992. Appointed when he was 39 years old, he is believed to have been the youngest person to hold this post and, as of 10 March 2012, was the longest serving Attorney-General of post-independence Singapore, having held office for just over 25 years.… read more

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   Tan Chee Khoon

   1919 - 1996 Male
   

   Politician, Major, Opposition

   
   

   Dr David Tan Chee Khoon was a major figure in Malaysian politics from 1959 to 1978, at one point being nicknamed "Mr. Opposition" for the outspoken views he presented in Parliament. He was the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1964 to 1978, when he retired.… read more

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   Tan Kim Ching

   1829 - 1892 Male
   

   Founder, Financier, Consul

   
   

   Singapore-born Tan Kim Ching who lived from 1829 to Feb 1892 was the eldest of the three sons of Tan Tock Seng, the founder and financier of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was consul for Japan, Thailand and Russia, was a member of the Royal Court of Siam. He was one of Singapore’s leading Chinese merchants and was one of its richest men at that time. He was also the first Asian member of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.… read more

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   Tan Malaka

   1894 - 1949 Male
   

   Militant, Communist

   
   

   Tan Malaka was an Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader. A staunch critic of both the colonial Dutch East Indies government and the republican Sukarno administration that governed the country after the Indonesian National Revolution, he was also frequently in conflict with the leadership of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), Indonesia's primary radical political party in the 1920s and again in the 1940s.… read more

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   Tan Dun

   Age 54 Male
   

   Composer, Musician

   
   

   Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.

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   Tan D. Nguyen

   Age 39 Male
   

   Politician, Campaigner, Congressman

   
   

   Tan Duc Nguyen was a two-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in California. In 2004, he sought the Democratic Party nomination to run against incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher in California's 46th congressional district. In 2006, he ran as a Republican against incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez in California's 47th congressional district. On February 14, 2011, Nguyen was sentenced by United States District Judge David O.… read more

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   Tan Jee Say

   Age 58 Male
   

   Politician, Businessman, Civil Servant

   
   

   Tan Jee Say is a Singaporean investment adviser, politician and former civil servant. He was a principal private secretary to former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and contested the 2011 general election under the opposition Singapore Democratic Party, but failed to win a seat. Tan stood as a candidate in the 2011 presidential election and finished in third place with 25% of the national vote.… read more