Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew GCMG, CH
李光耀
Meenister Mentor o Singapore
In office 12 August 2004 – 21 Mey 2011
Prime Meenister	Lee Hsien Loong
Precedit bi	New title
Succeedit bi	Poseetion abolished
Senior Meenister o Singapore
In office 28 November 1990 – 12 August 2004
Prime Meenister	Goh Chok Tong
Precedit bi	S. Rajaratnam
Succeedit bi	Goh Chok Tong
Prime meenister o Singapore Elections: 1959- 1988
In office 3 Juin 1959 – 28 November 1990
Preses	Yusof bin Ishak Benjamin Henry Sheares C. V. Devan Nair Wee Kim Wee
Depute	See list Toh Chin Chye (1959–1968) Goh Keng Swee (1968–1985) Goh Chok Tong (1985–1990) S. Rajaratnam (1980–1985) Ong Teng Cheong (1985–1990)
Succeedit bi	Goh Chok Tong
General Secretary o the Fowk's Action Pairty o Singapore
In office 21 November 1954 – 1 November 1992
Succeedit bi	Goh Chok-Tong
Member o Pairlament for Tanjong Pagar GRC Tanjong Pagar SMC (1955–1991)
In office 2 April 1955 – 23 March 2015
Precedit bi	Constituency established
Succeedit bi	TBD
Majority	Walkover
Personal details
Born	Harry Lee Kuan Yew 16 September 1923(1923-09-16) Singapore, Straits Settlements
Dee'd	23 Mairch 2015(2015-03-23) (aged 91) Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Naitionality	Singapore
Poleetical pairty	Fowk's Action Pairty
Spoose(s)	Kwa Geok Choo (m. 1950; weed. 2010)
Bairns	Lee Hsien Loong Lee Wei Ling Lee Hsien Yang
Alma mater	Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Lunnon Schuil o Economics
Thrift	Politeecian
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	None (Agnostic)
Awairds	(1967)

This is a Cheenese name; the faimlie name is Lee.

Lee Kuan Yew
Cheenese	李光耀
Transcriptions Staundart Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Guāngyào Tongyong Pinyin Lǐ Guangyào Wade–Giles Li3 Kuang1-yao4 IPA [lì kwáŋjâu] Yale Romanisation Lǐ Gwāngyàu Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Lei5 Gwong1-jiu6 IPA [le̬i kʷɔ́ːŋ jỳː] Yale Romanization Leíh Gwōngjiuh Soothren Min Hokkien POJ Lí Kong-iāu

Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew, 16 September 1923 – 23 Mairch 2015), GCMG, CH, wis a Singaporean politeecian. Eften referred tae as the Faither o Singapore or bi the initials LKY, he wis the first Prime Meenister o the Republic o Singapore, govrenin for three decades. He is an aa widely recognised as the foondin faither o modren Singapore.

As the co-foonder an first General Secretar o the Fowk's Action Pairty (PAP), he led the pairty tae aicht victories frae 1959 tae 1990, an owersaw the separation o Singapore frae Malaysie in 1965 an its subsequent transformation frae a relatively unnerdeveloped colonial ootpost wi na naitural resoorces intae a "First Warld" Asie Teeger. He is ane o the maist influential poleetical figurs in Asie.

Singapore's seicond prime meenister Goh Chok Tong appointit him Senior Meenister in 1990. He held the advisory post o Meenister Mentor, creatit bi his son Lee Hsien Loong, when the latter acame the naition's third prime meenister in August 2004. Wi his successive ministerial poseetions spannin ower 50 years, Lee is an aa ane o history's langest-serving meenisters. On 14 Mey 2011, Lee an Goh Chok Tong annoonced thair retirement frae the cabinet efter the 2011 general election.

Freemit airtins

• Lee Kuan Yew
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose

• Lee Kuan Yew on IMDb
• Wirks bi or aboot Lee Kuan Yew in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Lee Kuan Yew collectit news an commentary at The New York Times
• Lee Kuan Yew at the Notable Names Database

Interviews an airticles

• A Conversation wi Lee Kuan Yew, Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, Mairch–Aprile 1994
• War o Wirds Alejandro Reyes, Time, 25 September 1998
• Lee Kuan Yew: A Chronology, 1923–1965 Largely based on Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore: Times, 1998. Retrieved 8 December 2004
• Part 1, Part 2: CNN, Fareed Zakaria talks wi Lee Kuan Yew aboot his life as prime meenister o Singapore, 22 September 2008
• Daddy knows best: The Lee Kuan Yew story, Tom Plate, Sify.com, 2010(?)
• Lee Kuan Yew Watch
• Offeecial Profile at the Parliament o Singapore (archived)
• The cutty film Interview wi Lee Kuan Yew (1967) is available for free dounlaid at the Internet Archive [mair]