Notable People
- Tun Ghafar Baba, Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister (1986–1993), Vice-President of the United Malays National Organisation (1962–1987), Malacca Chief Minister (1959–1963).
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim, award winning novelist, writer and Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Maria Jane Dyer (Maria Jane Taylor), born in Malacca in 1837, pioneer missionary to China, daughter of Samuel Dyer and Maria (Tarn) Dyer, she became the wife of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission.
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