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

YearGrade (if any)RecipientNotesRef.
1962First Class Yusof Ishak, 1933.png Yusof Ishak Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Singapore [1] [2] [3]
Lim Kim San in the 1940s.jpg Lim Kim San [4] [5]
1963 Ahmed Ben Bella aux USA, oct.1962 (cropped) (2).jpg Ahmed Ben Bella Prime Minister of Algeria [6]
1967 Eisaku Sato cropped 1 Eisaku Sato 19641109.jpg Eisaku Satō Prime Minister of Japan [7]
1972First Class (Honorary) Queen Elizabeth II official portrait for 1959 tour (retouched) (cropped) (3-to-4 aspect ratio).jpg Elizabeth II Queen of the United Kingdom [5] [8]
First Class (Honorary) Duke of Edinburgh 33 Allan Warren.jpg Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Consort of the British monarch [8] [9]
1974First Class (Honorary) Ferdinand Marcos (cropped)(2).jpg Ferdinand Marcos President of the Philippines [10] [11]
First Class (Honorary) President Suharto, 1993.jpg Suharto President of Indonesia [12] [13]
1984First Class Hon Sui Sen, 1946.png Hon Sui Sen [14] [15]
1985First Class Goh Keng Swee, 1948 (3x4 cropped).png Goh Keng Swee Former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore [5] [16]
1990First Class ASEAN's Big Five (S. Rajaratnam).jpg S. Rajaratnam Former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore [5] [17]
First Class (Honorary) Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah - 53857993945.jpg Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan of Brunei [18] [19]
1993First Class Wee Kim Wee (3x4 crop).png Wee Kim Wee Former President of Singapore [20] [21]
1999First Class Yong Pung How at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new School of Law building, Singapore Management University - 20140120-01.jpg Yong Pung How Former Chief Justice of Singapore [22] [23]
2005(Honorary) Sirajuddin of Perlis in 2018.jpg Sirajuddin of Perlis King of Malaysia [ citation needed ]
2007Second Class S. Dhanabalan [24] [25]
2008Second Class Chan Sek Keong 2012 (cropped).jpg Chan Sek Keong Former Chief Justice of Singapore [26] [27]
2009First Class (Honorary) Qaboos bin Said profile 1983 (cropped).jpg Qaboos bin Said Sultan of Oman [28]
2013First Class S. R. Nathan, 2003 (cropped).jpg S. R. Nathan Former President of Singapore [29] [30]
2014First Class (Honorary) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, official presidential portrait (2009).jpg Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President of Indonesia [31] [32]
2015First ClassS. DhanabalanChairman, Temasek [33] [34]
2018First Class Tony Tan Keng Yam cropp.jpg Tony Tan Former President of Singapore [35] [36]
2019Distinction 1 JY Pillay 2023 (cropped).jpg J. Y. Pillay Former chairman, Council of Presidential Advisers [37] [38]
2020High Distinction Jayakumar (1).jpg S. Jayakumar Senior legal adviser, Minister for Foreign Affairs [39] [40]
2023High Distinction President Halimah Yacob in 2019.jpg Halimah Yacob Former President of Singapore [41] [42]

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