I know one..that I respected the most, our former PM Lee, current MM Lee. He is the only one that is still living while most of his friends had gone to Heaven. (I think)
We had many great man last century in all parts of the world, for example, India, America, England and China
I remembered very few..last decade maybe Deng XiaoPeng..I think Reegan recently. So we must be proud of MM Lee for singapore is only a small island country yet we have a great man. Now even younger generation chinese leaders are also looked upon him as a model to learnt from. With him, we are given the opportunities to do business in Suzhou and other etc. Hence must really appreciate his good vision which allow us to tap on the growth of China.
Nearby country even australia and new zealand can't match us..MM Lee had given us a 1st World Standard Country as what was stated.