tokoh-tokoh kelahiran penang

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mai kita list tokoh2 yg telah dilahirkan dipulau pinang terkenal seluruh malaysia atau mungkin dunia dalam pelbagai bidang cth:-seni, politik,agama dll

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P. Ramlee

Tan Sri Dr P. Ramlee PSM, AMN (22 March 1929–29 May 1973) was a Malaysian film actor, director singer, and songwriter. Due to his contributions in the movie and music industry, as well as in the literary scene, he is often attributed as the icon of Malay entertainment in both Malaysia, Singapore as well as in Sumatra, Indonesia (especially in Acheh due to his ancestry).

Biography

Ramlee was born Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh to Teuku Nyak Puteh bin Teuku Karim and Che' Mah Hussein at his grandmother's house (now opened as P. Ramlee House) in Counter Hall (now renamed as Jalan P. Ramlee), Penang, Malaysia. His father Teuku Nyak Puteh was a sailor from Lhokseumawe in the province of Aceh, Indonesia.

As a child, he studied in several schools, including the famous Penang Free School. During his school days he was very active in sports, especially sepak takraw, badminton, and football.

He was married three times, the last to the singer Salmah Ismail (or popularly known as Saloma) in 1961.


Career
Main article: List of P. Ramlee films

P.Ramlee's big break came on 1 June 1948 when he was spotted by Tamil film director B. S. Rajhans. The director was impressed by Ramlee, and in 1949 he was cast in the film Nasib (Fate). Seven years later, Ramlee directed his first film Penarik Becha (The Trishaw Man). In 1957, Ramlee would act in the first of his Bujang Lapok (Dowdy Bachelors) comedic films that he acted along S. Shamsuddin along with Aziz Sattar, which are still popular among the modern Malay film watchers.

During his career he directed and acted in sixty-six films, and had more than 360 songs to his credit. Among his films that received awards are:
Best Musical Score for Hang Tuah — Third Asian Film Festival, Hong Kong (1956)
Best Male Actor for Anak-ku Sazali (My son, Sazali) — Fourth Asian Film Festival, Tokyo (1957)
Best Comedy Film for Nujum Pak Belalang (The Fortune Teller) — Seventh Asian Film Festival, Tokyo (1960)
Most Versatile Talent for Ibu Mertua Ku (My Mother In-law) — Tenth Asian Film Festival, Tokyo (1963)
Best Comedy Film for Madu Tiga (Three Wives) — Eleventh Asian Film Festival, Taipei (1964)

His final film was Laksamana Do Re Mi on 1972 and last songs and lyrics was Ayer Mata Di Kuala Lumpur on 1973 before his death.


Death

On 29 May 1973 P.Ramlee died at the age of 44 due to heart problems and was buried in Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur. In 1986, in honour of his contributions to the Malaysian entertainment industry, the P. Ramlee Memorial was set up in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. In 1982, Jalan Parry in the KL city centre has been renamed Jalan P. Ramlee in his honor. He was posthumously awarded with the Malaysian honorific title Tan Sri in the early 1990s.

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Abdullah Ahmad Badawi



Abdullah Badawi was born in Kepala Batas, Penang to a prominent religious family. His father, Ahmad Badawi, was a prominent religious figure and UMNO member. Badawi's paternal grandfather is Syeikh Abdullah Badawi Fahim, who was one of the founding members of Hizbul Muslimin, later known as PAS. Syeikh Abdullah Badawi Fahim was also a famous nationalist and first mufti of Penang after Independence.[2] His maternal grandfather, Ha Su-chiang (also known as Hassan), was a Chinese Muslim who came from Sanya in Hainan.[3]

Abdullah Badawi is a former student of Bukit Mertajam High School. After failing to enrol into his first choice course, economics, Badawi opted for a less to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies from the University of Malaya in 1964.

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Political career

After graduating from the University of Malaya, he joined the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Corps (the formal term for the civil service). He served as Director of Youth at the Ministry of Youth and Sport as well as secretary of the National Emergency Council (MAGERAN). He resigned in 1978 to become the member of parliament for his constituency of Kepala Batas in northern Seberang Perai (which had also been represented by his late father), which he still represents today.

Early during Mahathir's tenure as prime minister, a bitter dispute erupted within the ruling UMNO party and it was divided into two camps, which were colloquially known as 'Team A' comprising Mahathir loyalists, and 'Team B', which supported former Minister of Finance Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and former Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam. Mahathir prevailed, leading to the exclusion of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah from the newly-established UMNO (Baru) or New UMNO. Abdullah Badawi was a close supporter of his political mentor Musa Hitam in Team B and as a result, he was sacked from his post of Minister of Defence in the cabinet. He did not join Semangat 46 (Spirit 46) party which was set up by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Semangat 46 is now defunct.

When UMNO (Baru) was formed in Feb 1988, the then UMNO President and Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad brought Abdullah Badawi into the protem committee of UMNO (Baru) as the Vice President. In 1990, Abdullah Badawi retained his seat as Vice President. During the Cabinet reshuffle in 1991, Mahathir brought Abdullah Badawi Ahmad back into the Cabinet as Foreign Minister. He held this post until November 1999 when Syed Hamid Albar succeeded. Even though Abdullah Badawi lost his Vice Presidency in the 1993 UMNO elections, he remained in the Cabinet and was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to 1998, he had also served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Minister of Education, Minister of Defence, and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He completed his probation when he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and Minister of Home Affairs following the dismissal of Anwar Ibrahim.

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Anwar Ibrahim



Anwar was born in Cherok Tok Kun, a village on the mainland side of the northern Malaysian state of Penang, to an Indian Muslim hospital porter, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman (later to join politics and retire as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health) and Che Yan, a housewife (and later UMNO politician). He was educated at University of Malaya, where he read Malay Studies. Prior to that, he took his secondary education at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.

From 1968 to 1971, as a student, Anwar was the president of a Muslim students organisation, Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia (PKPIM). He was one of the protem committee of Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) or Muslim Youth Movement of Malaysia which was founded in 1971. He was also elected President of the Malaysian Youth Council or Majlis Belia Malaysia (MBM). In 1974, Anwar was arrested during student protests against rural poverty and hunger. This came as a report surfaced stating that a family died from starvation in a village in Baling, in the state of Kedah, despite the fact that it never happened. He was imprisoned under the Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial, and spent 20 months in the Kamunting Detention Centre for political prisoners.

In 1968-1971, he was first groomed in the National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students (Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia, PKPIM) as the president of the Union. In 1982, Anwar, who was the founding leader and second president of a youth Islamic organisation called Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), shocked his liberal supporters by joining the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), led by Mahathir bin Mohamad, who had become prime minister in 1981. He moved up the political ranks quickly: his first ministerial office was that of Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports in 1983; after that, he headed the agriculture ministry in 1984 before becoming Minister of Education in 1986. By then, speculation was rife about Anwar's ascent to the Deputy Prime Minister's position as it was a commonly-occurring phenomenon in Malaysia for the Education Minister to assume the position of Deputy PM in the near future.

During his tenure as Education Minister, Anwar introduced numerous pro-Malay policies in the national school curriculum. One of the major changes that he did was to rename the national language from Bahasa Malaysia to Bahasa Melayu. Non-Malays criticized this move as it would cause the younger generation to be detached from the national language, since they would attribute it to being something that belongs to the Malays and not to Malaysians.



In 1991 Anwar was appointed Minister of Finance. In 1993, he became Mahathir's Deputy Prime Minister after winning the Deputy Presidency of UMNO against Ghafar Baba. There is report on Anwar using large cash payments to win support. Anwar is alleged to have resorted to money politics to secure his position as deputy president of UMNO. Anwar's followers were witnessed by even foreign journalists handing out packets of money to acquire support of UMNO division leaders. These followers are said to be working under Anwar's instructions.[1] Mohamad Sabu, a prominent member of PAS questioned where were about 300 million stocks of Petronas Dagang were invested because of the sudden change in UMNO Sabah's delegates' allegiance from Ghafar to Anwar.[2]Anwar was being groomed to succeed Mahathir as prime minister, and frequently alluded in public to his "son-father" relationship with Mahathir; in early 1997, Mahathir appointed Anwar to be acting Prime Minister while he took a two-month holiday.

Towards the end of the 1990s, however, the relationship with Mahathir had begun to deteriorate, triggered by their conflicting views on governance. In Mahathir's absence, Anwar had independently taken radical steps to improve the country's governing mechanisms which were in direct conflict with Mahathir's capitalist policies. Issues such as how Malaysia would respond to a financial crisis were often at the forefront of this conflict.

Anwar's frontal attack against what he described as the widespread culture of nepotism and cronyism within UMNO (and the ruling coalition as a whole) angered Mahathir, as did his attempts to dismantle the protectionist policies that Mahathir had set up. "Cronyism" was identified by Anwar as a major cause of corruption and misappropriation of funds in the country. The events of late-1998 marked the beginning of Anwar's descent within UMNO and his subsequent ouster from the party and from Malaysian politics.

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Belajar main saksofon, dalami muzik daripada The King of Trumpet di Kabaret BB Park

“SAYA bukan minta emas...,” itulah kata-kata dari komposer dan pemuzik veteran, Datuk Ahmad Nawab yang diluahkan dalam satu majlis penghargaan oleh sebuah syarikat rakaman, kira-kira enam tahun lalu.

Semasa menerima Anugerah Khas Bintang Popular 2005 daripada Berita Harian baru-baru ini, beliau berkata, “Penghargaan seperti ini memang bagus, sekurang-kurangnya karyawan seni macam saya masih dihargai.”

Begitulah halusnya jiwa seni Ahmad Nawab yang dengan jelas menyatakan, penghargaan itu bukan bermakna memberi kekayaan, tetapi pengiktirafan bahawa sumbangan orang seni memang berhak untuk dihargai.

Sebagai orang seni, jiwanya memang sensitif. Pernah beberapa kali beliau menyuarakan kekesalan dan kekecewaan terhadap syarikat rakaman dan segelintir penyanyi yang sering memandang mudah soal nama pencipta lagu atau hak cipta, lebih-lebih lagi kalau membabitkan karya ciptaannya.

Sememangnya Ahmad Nawab bukan calang-calang orang dalam dunia muzik. Beliau mungkin boleh bergelar legenda. Lebih 2,000 lagu yang dihasilkan sepanjang pembabitannya dalam muzik membuktikan beliau sememang seorang yang layak digelar tokoh.

Daripada sejumlah itu, hampir 1,000 lagu ciptaannya itu dinyanyikan atau dirakamkan lebih 80 penyanyi.

Malahan pada usia 70 tahun, semangatnya dalam muzik tidak pernah mati. Beliau masih memelihara semangat seni dalam jiwanya dan terus setia berdampingan dengan alat muzik yang paling diminati dan disayanginya - saksofon. Tidak hairanlah kalau M Nasir pernah menggelar Ahmad Nawab sebagai sifu dalam muzik.

Lagu Bintang Malam adalah karya pertama ciptaan beliau pada tahun 1952. Orang pertama yang menyanyikan lagu itu ialah Datuk Ahmad Daud (Allahyarham). Namun, orang pertama merakamkannya dalam bentuk piring hitam ialah Zaharah Agus (Allahyarham). Lagu itu juga pernah dinyanyikan Puan Sri Saloma (Allahyarham) selain Uji Rashid dan Hetty Koes Endang.

Kalau diikutkan, senarai lagu ciptaannya memang terlalu panjang untuk disenaraikan. Memadai sekadar menyebut beberapa lagu seperti Sabar Menanti, Bila Rindu Ku Sebut Namamu, Kau Yang Ku Tunggu, Calypso Samba, Kau Kunci Cintaku Dalam Hatimu, Dalam Dakapanmu, Bossanova, Mimpi Di Siang Hari dan Yang Di Tunggu Tak Tiba.

Bukan itu saja, selain menghasilkan lagu terbaik, Ahmad Nawab juga bertanggungjawab mengasah bakat penyanyi baru sehingga namanya kekal sehingga sekarang. Datuk Sharifah Aini, Broery Marantika, Salamiah Hassan, Uji Rashid, Hail Amir, Jamal Abdillah, Azlina Aziz, Siti Fairuz, Ramlah Ram dan Nassier Wahab adalah antara penyanyi yang pernah mendapat bimbingannya.

Cita-Cita Menjadi Pelukis

Mengimbas sejarah silamnya, Ahmad Nawab semasa di sekolah rendah lebih cenderung untuk menjadi pelukis. Cita-cita itu berubah ketika di Sekolah Francis Light, Pulau Pinang.

Ia berlaku akibat pengaruh secara tidak langsung daripada bapanya, Nawab Khan, iaitu pemain klarinet bersama Band Perbandaran Pulau Pinang. Tapi bapanya enggan mengajarnya meniup klarinet. Nawab Khan tidak suka anak-anaknya jadi pemuzik sepertinya.

Nawab, sama seperti sebahagian besar dengan pemikiran masyarakat masa itu, berpendapat menjadi pemuzik tidak boleh menjamin masa depan, malah kerjaya ini sering dipandang rendah.

Bagaimanapun, Ahmad Nawab kurang berminat dengan pelajaran. Menyedari perkara itu, barulah bapanya membenarkannya menceburi muzik. Sebaik saja bapanya memberi lampu hijau, beliau tidak menoleh ke belakang lagi. Daripada klarinet, beliau berusaha untuk bermain saksofon, baritone, flute dan akhirnya piano.

Tidak lama kemudian, beliau menyertai bapanya bermain bersama Band Perbandaran Pulau Pinang. Ketika berumur 17 tahun, beliau menyertai perkhidmatan polis dan dihantar ke Alor Star. Dua tahun di Alor Star, beliau kembali ke Pulau Pinang.

Apabila pulang ke tempat asalnya, Ahmad Nawab kembali bekerja bersama bapanya dalam band itu dengan gaji RM90 sebulan.

Beliau kemudian memberanikan diri menubuhkan kumpulan muzik yang diberi nama Murni Mambo. Ahmad Daud adalah antara penyanyinya. Kejayaannya dalam muzik tidak datang menggolek. Selain kehendak Tuhan, selainnya adalah usaha beliau yang bersungguh-sungguh mahu membaiki diri.

Atas sebab itu, beliau mencuba nasib di Kuala Lumpur. Matlamatnya adalah untuk mempelajari muzik dengan lebih mendalam. Di Kuala Lumpur, beliau bekerja di Kabaret BB Park. Semasa di sinilah, beliau mula bermain saksofon dan belajar muzik daripada pemain trumpet terkenal waktu itu, Ahmad Amin atau lebih dikenali sebagai The King Of Trumpet

Dua tahun di BB Park, beliau menyertai RTM yang ketika itu hendak menubuhkan orkestranya sendiri dan memerlukan pemain baritone. Beliau sanggup membeli alat muzik itu semata-mata tidak mahu melepaskan peluang menjadi pemuzik di RTM kerana waktu itu beliau hanya memiliki tenor.

Begitulah kegigihan, minat dan keazaman Ahmad Nawab kerana cintanya pada muzik. Juruhebah radio yang kini Pengurus Radio Klasik FM, Chuari Selamat pernah berkata, Ahmad Nawab seorang yang tidak pernah kering idea.

“Idea Ahmad Nawab memang tak pernah kering. Selalunya dia dapat idea selepas melihat satu-satu kejadian. Contohnya, dia cipta lagu Cahaya yang dinyanyikan DJ Dave selepas melihat seorang peminta sedekah buta,” kata Chuari, yang menulis lirik Wajah Kesayangan Hamba nyanyian Hail Amir, lagu pertama yang diberikan kepadanya.


PROFIL: Datuk Ahmad Nawab

NAMA SEBENAR: Ahmad Khan Nawab Khan
NAMA KOMERSIL: Ahmad Nawab
USIA: 71 tahun
TEMPAT LAHIR: Jalan Transfer, Pulau Pinang dan dibesarkan di Perak Road, Pulau Pinang
NAMA IBUBAPA: Juhara Bee Fakir Maidin Nawab Khan Rana Khan
KELUARGA: Sulung daripada tiga beradik
PENDIDIKAN: Sekolah Rendah Melayu Perak Road dan Sekolah Menengah Francis Light.
PENGHARGAAN: Lagu Terbaik FFM1 (1980), Lagu Terbaik FFM2 (1981), Muzik Terbaik FFM4 (1983), Juara Lagu 1988 dan Anugerah Istimewa AIM (1993)
ANUGERAH: PJK (1979), Ahli Mangku Negara (AMN), Pingat Kelakuan Terpuji, Pingat Setia Ahmad Shah dan Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (1996) dan Anugerah Khas Bintang Popular Berita Harian (ABPBH2005)

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Yusof Rawa dalam kenangan



Allahyarham Tuan Haji Yusuf Bin Haji Abdullah Ar-Rawi atau dikenali sebagai Haji Yusof Rawa dikenali sebagai tokoh gerakan Islam yang dikagumi kerana mindanya yang tajam boleh mengupas segala persoalan walau pun ianya rumit bagi sesetengah pihak. Beliau dilahirkan di Lebuh Acheh, Pulau Pinang pada tanggal 6 Mei 1922. Beliau pada mulanya belajar di Sekolah Melayu di Jalan Carnavon kemudian berpindah ke Sekolah Charausta. Di peringkat menengah pula beliau memasuki sekolah Inggeris iaitu Goument English School kemudian sambung ke Penang Free School sehingga memperolehi Junior Cambridge.

Melihat kecerdikannya dalam bahasa Inggeris, lantas membuatkan ayahnya mengambil keputusan untuk menghantar beliau melanjutkan pelajaran ke Mekah. Di sana, ternyata beliau tidak menghampakan impian keluarganya apabila cemerlang memperolehi Diploma Thaqasur Al-Deeni dari Maadul Falah. Selepas memperolehi semua impian tersebut beliau kembali ke tanah air membantu meningkatkan perniagaan ayahnya sebelum melibatkan secara langsung dalam politik. Penglibatan beliau dalam politik bermula selepas menjawat jawatan Pesuruhjaya PAS Negeri Pulau Pinang menggantikan Ustaz Ahmad Azzam yang berpindah tempat.

Semenjak memegang amanah itu Allahyarham diberi kepercayaan menjadi Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat walaupun setelah melepaskan jawatan Pesuruhjaya PAS Negeri. Kepimpinan PAS di bawah Dato' Asri Muda, beliau sekali lagi diberi mandat sebagai Timbalan Yang DiPertua. Semasa pemilihan jawatankuasa baru PAS pada awal 1980-an beliau sebulat suara telah diamanahkan sebagai Yang Dipertua PAS bagi menggantikan Allahyarham Dato' Asri Muda semasa muktamar yang mendesar perubahan dalaman. Ketika memegang peranan besar itu selama beberapa tahun pada penghujung 1980-an beliau menyerahkan tugasan besar kepada timbalannya, Ustaz Fadzil Mohd Noor.

Semenjak itu, kesihatan beliau kurang memuaskan sehinggalah beliau beberapa kali mendapatkan rawatan di hospital sehingga menghembuskan nafasnya terakhir pada 28 April 2000 kira-kira jam 7.15 pagi. Allahyarham meninggalkan seorang balu, II orang anak, enam perempuan dan lima lelaki serta 30 cucu hasil perkongsian hidup bersama Hajah Kalsom Ali. Beliau juga pernah menjadi wakil ke Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) serta menjadi duta Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan dan Turki ketika penggabungan PAS dalam Barisan Nasinal (BN) pada pertengahan tahun 1970-an.

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Ahmad Daud ayah Ogy Ahmad Daud tu...orang Penang ka?hmmm

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Datuk Ustazah Bahiah yang glamour dlm tv tu? Orang Penang jugak kan?

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hang paste la apa2 info ttg depa

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baguih2... paste apa2 info.. nnti haku bagi tacang na..

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Dr MAZA : Tokoh Maal Hijrah USM 1430H


Dr. Mohd Asri bin Zainul Abidin telah dipilih sebagai Tokoh Maal Hijrah USM 1430 Hijrah. Beliau yang dinobatkan Tokoh Dakwah, menerima wang tunai RM5,000, pewter dan sijil penghargaan.

Yang di-Pertua Negeri Pulau Pinang, T.Y.T Tun Dato’ Seri Utama (Dr.) Haji Abdul Rahman Abbas telah merasmikan Majlis Sambutan Maal Hijrah 1430H sekaligus menyampaikan Anugerah Tokoh Dakwah Maal Hijrah (1430) Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) pada hari Khamis, 8 Januari 2009, jam 2.30 petang di Dewan Budaya, USM Pulau Pinang.

Dr Mohd Asri ialah pensyarah Pengajian Islam di USM sejak 2003 sebelum dipinjamkan sebagai Mufti Perlis untuk tempoh dua tahun.

Anak kelahiran Bukit Mertajam itu adalah penerima anugerah Tokoh Maal Hijrah peringkat Perlis 2006.

Beliau mendapat pendidikan di Kolej Islam Klang sebelum menyambung pelajaran peringkat Sarjana Muda di Universiti Jordan dalam bahasa Arab dan Syariah.

Selepas itu, beliau menyambung pelajaran ke peringkat sarjana di USM dalam bidang Pengajian Islam dan Doktor Falsafah (PhD) di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) dalam bidang Pengajian Hadis.

Dr Mohd Asri memulakan kerjaya sebagai pensyarah di USM pada 2003 sebelum ditawarkan sebagai Mufti Perlis, tetapi pada masa sama masih terikat sebagai kakitangan USM.

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Originally posted by skimax2 at 5-3-2009 04:02
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tak tahu plak nak mencari kat mana

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Nicol David

Nicol Ann David (Datuk Nicol Ann David, DSPN)[5] (born August 26, 1983 in Penang, Malaysia)[1] is a Malaysian professional squash player. She is currently the World No. 1 in women's squash[1] (she is the first Asian woman to be ranked World No. 1 in the sport). She captured the World Open title in 2005, 2006 and 2008, and the British Open title in 2005, 2006 and 2008.[6]

Nicol David is the first squash player to have won the World Junior title twice (1999 and 2000)[3] under the tutelage of Richard Glanfield. She remained the only female squash player to have achieved this, until Raneem El Weleily emulated David's feat by winning her second World Junior Championship in 2007. Nicol moved inexorably up the senior rankings to become a fixture in the top flight. At a very young age, she has been invited to carry the Olympic torch for Malaysia during the build up to the Athens Olympics in 2004 and being appointed a UN goodwill ambassador.

On December 4, 2005, Nicol beat Rachael Grinham in the final of the Hong Kong World Open to become the youngest world champion. She then defended her title on November 25, 2006, at the historic Ulster Hall in Belfast by beating Natalie Grinham in the final. She became the first Malaysian athlete to win a world championship title for the 2nd consecutive time, and the fourth person in history to retain the World Open Squash Championship.

Nicol David's other notable achievements include the Asian squash championship, which she won with a record of six times (in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008)[3]. She also held a 13-month, 51-match winning streak, from March 2006 to April 2007 when she finally lost to Natalie Grinham in the final of the 2007 Seoul Open. In today's standard of professional squash, which is regarded by many as being much more competitive than what it was decades ago, having a winning streak comparable to this is an achievement not easily obtainable.

Nicol has risen in name after her near total dominance of the game in recent years. The Current Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a fellow Penangite, quipped once that David is "now more famous than me". Considering her young age, she is expected to remain the top female player in the game for a while to come.

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Lee Chong Wei

Datuk Lee Chong Wei (simplified Chinese: 李宗伟; pinyin: Lǐ zōng wěi, born in George Town, Penang; October 21, 1982[1]) is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam.[2] Lee won the silver medal in 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games. This achievement also earned him the title Datuk, and a description by Malaysian minister Najib Tun Razak as national hero.[3]

As a singles player, Lee was again ranked first worldwide on August 21, 2008.[4] He is the third Malaysian men's singles shuttler after Rashid Sidek and Roslin Hashim to achieve such a ranking (since official rankings were first kept in the 1980s), and is the only Malaysian shuttler to hold the ranking for more than two weeks.

Lee has won many international badminton titles in his career, including five Super Series titles. However, despite his status among the world elite, Lee has only managed to capture bronze (in 2005) at the BWF World Championships and has never won the prestigious All England Open. Lee has also been unable to lead Malaysia to victory in the highly coveted biennial Thomas Cup (men's international team championship), despite his number one rankings during the 2006 and 2008 events.

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Datuk jimmy choo yg buat kasut tu org penang kan?

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Tan Sri Azizan Zainul Abidin,former Petronas corporate figure

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Kid with Datuk Jimmy Choo at the launch of Yayasan Tunku Fauziah,2004

Choo is a Malaysian citizen of Hakka Chinese descent, who was born in Penang in 1961 into a family of shoemakers. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most famous of students of Cordwainers' Technical College in Hackney, London, from which he graduated in 1983. The college is now part of the London College of Fashion. Choo has divulged that he worked part-time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education.

Jimmy Choo's beginnings can be traced back to his workshop in Hackney, East London, which he opened in 1986 by renting an old hospital building. His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the verge of international fame when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue magazine. Patronage from Diana, Princess of Wales from 1990 onwards further boosted his image.

In 1996, he co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd with British Vogue accessories editor Tamara Mellon.

In April 2001, Choo sold his 50% stake in the company for

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aku rasa pak pie(nana tanjunga) pun org kelahiran penang, tapi aku takda info ttg dia lagi la

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Originally posted by skimax2 at 6-3-2009 05:22 PM
aku rasa pak pie(nana tanjunga) pun org kelahiran penang, tapi aku takda info ttg dia lagi la

Pak Piee tue kan.. dia nampak mcm tak brapa sehat ja.. haku ada skodeng crita nana tanjung tb9 malam senin.. uhuks.. sian lak.. tapi bila tengok muka dia memang lawak..

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Ni pun tokoh jugak .. aku kalau ada masa pi dengaq kuliah dia kat parit buntaq..
Dato Ustaz Shamsuri

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Tan Sri Dato' Loh Boon Siew 1915-1995 (Chinese: 駱文秀)

also known as “Mr Honda” was a Penangite tycoon and the first sole distributor of Honda motorcycles in Malaysia.

Boon Siew was born in Hui-An, Fujian province of China. He spent his childhood collecting pig dung (then used as fuel) to make a living. At age 12, he arrived in Penang in a small boat from China with 5 friends namely Loh Poh Heng and Loh Say Bee. He could speak only Hokkien (Min Nan) and had virtually no formal education. He worked as an apprentice car mechanic (earning three dollars monthly) upon his arrival. It is said that Boon Siew's sifu used to hit him in the head whenever he did something wrong. He stayed in a ‘coolie keng’ (workers' quarters) at 4, Katz Street, Penang and he supplemented his income by washing buses at night for 10 cents per vehicle.

At age 18, Boon Siew purchased 11 buses using his $2,000 in savings. He reconditioned the buses and sold them for $12,000. Next, he used the money he earned to buy another 39 buses. In 1942, during WWII, all his hard-earned money was confiscated by the invading Japanese army. But Boon Siew did not give up. After WWII ended in 1945 and the Japanese were defeated, he started selling bicycles, tyres and motorcycle accessories, and soon he expanded his business to used cars, transports and buses.

In the 1950s, Boon Siew made his first of many forays into property development with his friends Say Bee and Poh Heng by building residential villas in Taman Saw Kit in Penang. Today, his work is continued by his Boon Siew Group and new residential areas are currently being built in Casa Permai 2.