List of Darjah Utama Temasek recipients

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This is a list of recipients of the Darjah Utama Temasek, the highest civilian honour and the second most prestigious national honour overall, conferred by the President of Singapore.

Recipients

Year	Grade (if any)	Recipient		Notes	Ref.
1962	First Class		Yusof Ishak	Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore	[1] [2] [3]
			Lim Kim San	Chairman, Housing and Development Board Deputy chairman, Economic Development Board Deputy chairman, Public Service Commission Board member, Singapore Polytechnic	[4] [5]
1963			Ahmed Ben Bella	Prime Minister of Algeria	[6]
1967			Eisaku Satō	Prime Minister of Japan	[7]
1972	First Class (Honorary)		Elizabeth II	Queen of the United Kingdom	[5] [8]
	First Class (Honorary)		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh	Consort of the British monarch	[8] [9]
1974	First Class (Honorary)		Ferdinand Marcos	President of the Philippines	[10] [11]
	First Class (Honorary)		Suharto	President of Indonesia	[12] [13]
1984	First Class		Hon Sui Sen	Posthumous award Former Minister of Finance	[14] [15]
1985	First Class		Goh Keng Swee	Former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore	[5] [16]
1990	First Class		S. Rajaratnam	Former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore	[5] [17]
	First Class (Honorary)		Hassanal Bolkiah	Sultan of Brunei	[18] [19]
1993	First Class		Wee Kim Wee	Former President of Singapore	[20] [21]
1999	First Class		Yong Pung How	Former Chief Justice of Singapore	[22] [23]
2005	(Honorary)		Sirajuddin of Perlis	King of Malaysia	[ citation needed ]
2007	Second Class		S. Dhanabalan	Former Chairman, Temasek Holdings Member, Council of Presidential Advisers	[24] [25]
2008	Second Class		Chan Sek Keong	Former Chief Justice of Singapore	[26] [27]
2009	First Class (Honorary)		Qaboos bin Said	Sultan of Oman	[28]
2013	First Class		S. R. Nathan	Former President of Singapore	[29] [30]
2014	First Class (Honorary)		Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	President of Indonesia	[31] [32]
2015	First Class		S. Dhanabalan	Chairman, Temasek	[33] [34]
2018	First Class		Tony Tan	Former President of Singapore	[35] [36]
2019	Distinction		J. Y. Pillay	Former chairman, Council of Presidential Advisers	[37] [38]
2020	High Distinction		S. Jayakumar	Senior legal adviser, Minister for Foreign Affairs	[39] [40]
2023	High Distinction		Halimah Yacob	Former President of Singapore	[41] [42]

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