List of Famous people born in Perak, Malaysia

Michelle Yeoh

First Name Michelle
Last Name Yeoh
Born on August 6, 1962 (age 61)
Born in Malaysia, Perak
Height 161 cm | 5'3

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, PSM is a Malaysian actress who rose to fame in 1990s Hong Kong action films and is best known internationally for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), along with recent international English-language films and series. She was more recently featured in CBS All-Access'/Netflix's Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2020) where she was the captain of the USS Shenzhou and Emperor from the Mirror Universe. She is also currently set to star in a Star Trek spinoff, about Section 31. Yeoh is credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films.

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Lee Chong Wei

First Name Lee
Last Name Wei
Born on October 21, 1982 (age 41)
Born in Malaysia, Perak
Height 172 cm | 5'8

Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a former Malaysian badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 349 weeks, including a 199-week streak from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the fourth Malaysian player after Rashid Sidek, Roslin Hashim and Wong Choong Hann to achieve such a ranking, and is the only Malaysian shuttler who has held the number one ranking for more than a year.

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Mandy Lieu

First Name Mandy
Last Name Lieu
Born on March 20, 1985 (age 39)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Mandy Lieu is a Malaysian-American model, actress, and TV show host based in Hong Kong. She has appeared in Hong Kong television shows and movies such as Horseplay and To the Fore.

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Ahmad Faizal Azumu

First Name Ahmad
Last Name Azumu
Born on June 10, 1970 (age 53)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Ahmad Faizal bin Azumu is a Malaysian politician who served as the 12th and 13th Menteri Besar of Perak from May 2018 to his resignation and collapse of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration in March 2020 and again from March 2020 to his resignation again and the collapse of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration in December 2020. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tambun and Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chenderiang since May 2018. He is a member, Deputy President and State Chairman of Perak as well as Pahang of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the ruling PN coalition at the federal level and former component party of the PH opposition coalition at both the federal and state levels. He was the State Chairman of PH of Perak. He was one of the only two Menteris Besar of Malaysia who has ruled in two state administrations of two different and opposing political coalitions, which were PH state administration from May 2018 to his resignation and its collapse in March 2020 and PN state administration from March 2020 to his resignation and its collapse in December 2020.

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Syatilla Melvin

First Name Syatilla
Born on February 8, 1991 (age 33)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Siti Nur Syatilla binti Amirol Melvin is a Malaysian actress and a model who debuted in 2012 and since then has acted in a few dramas and TV series.

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Leong Mun Yee

First Name Leong
Last Name Yee
Born on December 4, 1984 (age 39)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Leong Mun Yee is a Malaysian diver. She competed at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics with the best result of seventh place in the 10 m synchronised platform event in 2012. Her appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics made her the first Malaysian diver to compete at three Olympics. The bronze medal that she and Pandelela Rinong won at the 2009 World Championships was the first World Championship medal for Malaysia.

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Raja Zarith Sofiah

First Name Raja
Last Name Sofiah
Born on August 14, 1959 (age 64)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Raja Zarith Sofiah binti Almarhum Sultan Idris Iskandar Al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah Afifullah is the Permaisuri of Johor. She was born as a member of the Perak Royal Family. While still attending Somerville College, Oxford, she married the heir to the throne of Johor. Now a mother of six, she participates in the work of non-governmental organisations and universities, and writes a periodical column for a newspaper.

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Angie Cheong

First Name Angie
Last Name Cheong
Born on November 4, 1970 (age 53)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Angie Cheong Wai-yee is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress. She won the Miss Chinese Malaysia in 1992 and went to Hong Kong to compete for the Miss Chinese International in 1993. After that, she signed a contract with the Hong Kong television TVB and became an actress. In 2003, she was beaten by her boyfriend and was seriously injured. Cheong recently returned to Malaysia to film an episode of Super Trio Series. In 2013, Cheong returned to TVB to film Never Dance Alone after being persuaded by her good friend and executive producer of the serial drama, Eric Tsang.

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Michael Wong

王光良
First Name Michael
Last Name Wong
Born on August 30, 1970 (age 53)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Michael Wong Kong Leong, also known mononymously by his Chinese name Guang Liang, is a Malaysian Chinese singer and composer who has sung and written many love-themed ballads and love songs, many of which have high popularity. He is popularly known in the Mandopop scene as the "Prince of Love Songs" (情歌王子).

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Mimi Chu

朱月美
First Name Mimi
Last Name Chu
Born on October 26, 1954 (age 69)
Born in Malaysia, Perak

Mimi Chu, born Choo Yit Mei is a Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress and singer. She lived in Singapore before moving to Hong Kong. She has appeared at many events. As an actress, she is a recognised face in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia having appeared in both Hong Kong and Singaporean productions.

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