Recipients
Many recipients of the President's Scholarship went on to serve in top positions in the civil service.
According to statistics collected by the newspaper The Straits Times, the schools in Singapore having the highest number of President's Scholars among their alumni are as follows:
| School | Number of President's Scholars |
|---|---|
| Raffles Institution | 88 |
| Hwa Chong Institution | 52 |
| National Junior College | 45 |
| Name | Year received | Brief description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edmund W. Barker | 1946 | Served as a minister in the Cabinet from 1964 to 1988. | Recipient of the Queen's Scholarship. |
| Kwa Geok Choo | The wife of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. | Recipient of the Queen's Scholarship. | |
| Tony Tan | The seventh and current President of Singapore. | Recipient of the Singapore State Scholarship. | |
| Yeo Ning Hong | Served as a minister in the Cabinet in the 1980s and 1990s. | Recipient of the Singapore State Scholarship. | |
| Lim Siong Guan | 1965 | The current Group President of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). | |
| Barry Desker | 1966 | The current Dean of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. | |
| Lee Yock Suan | 1966 | Served as a minister in the Cabinet from 1987 to 2004. | |
| Mah Bow Tan | 1967 | Served as a minister in the Cabinet from 1991 to 2011. | |
| Kishore Mahbubani | 1967 | The current Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. | |
| Su Guaning | 1967 | Served as President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from 2003 to 2011. | |
| Lee Hsien Loong | 1970 | The third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. | |
| Ho Ching | 1972 | The current Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings and the wife of Lee Hsien Loong. | |
| Teo Chee Hean | 1973 | The current Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs. | |
| George Yeo | 1973 | Served as a minister in the Cabinet from 1991 to 2011. | |
| Chan Soo Sen | 1975 | Served as a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2011. | |
| Lee Hsien Yang | 1976 | Served as the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Telecommunications from 1995 to 2007. The younger brother of Lee Hsien Loong. | |
| Lim Hng Kiang | 1976 | The current Minister for Trade and Industry. | |
| Vivian Balakrishnan | 1980 | The current Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. | |
| Ng Chee Khern | 1984 | Served as Chief of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) from 2006 to 2009. | |
| Chan Chun Sing | 1988 | The current Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports. | |
| Ng Chee Peng | 1989 | The current Chief of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). Younger brother of Ng Chee Khern. | |
| Sim Ann | 1994 | The current Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Law. |
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