People & stories
People & stories
Behind every view there are people: warlords who founded cities, exiled poets, architects who gave their lives to a single church. Here are 162 historical figures linked to our destinations and 1161 local stories. History and folk legend are labelled separately, and every story has a source.
马来西亚
18th century · 1740–1794
Francis Light
Founder of Penang and George Town
2 related places
19th century · 1837–1885
Yap Ah Loy
Third Kapitan Cina of Kuala Lumpur, 'the Father of Kuala Lumpur'
1 related places
1955–1957
Tunku Abdul Rahman, full name Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah
First Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya (1955–1957) and first Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957–1970), Malaysia's "Father of Independence".
2 related places
柬埔寨
12th–13th century · c. 1122–1218
Jayavarman VII
Khmer king who built Angkor Thom and the Bayon
1 related places
12th century · ？–1150
Suryavarman II
Khmer king, builder of Angkor Wat
1 related places
1941–1955
Norodom Sihanouk, Khmer: នរោត្ដម សីហនុ
King of Cambodia twice over (1941–1955, 1993–2004) and independence movement leader, who also served as prime minister and head of state.
泰国
13th–14th century · 1238–1311
King Mangrai
Founding king of the Lanna kingdom and founder of Chiang Mai
1 related places
18th century · 1734–1782
King Taksin (Taksin the Great)
The only king of the Thonburi Kingdom
1 related places
18th–19th century · 1737–1809
Rama I
Founding monarch of Siam's Chakri dynasty
3 related places
印度尼西亚
c. 1290–c. 1364 (uncertain)
Gajah Mada, Javanese: ꦓꦗꦃꦩꦢ
14th-century prime minister (Mahapatih, in office c. 1331/1334–c. 1364) of the Majapahit Empire, the commander and statesman who brought the empire to its peak.
21 April 1879–17 September 1904
Kartini, full name Raden Adjeng Kartini, also Raden Ayu Kartini
Late-19th- to early-20th-century Javanese aristocratic woman and pioneer of women's education, an Indonesian national heroine.
菲律宾
c. 1491–c. 1542 (uncertain)
Lapulapu, also Lapu-Lapu; earliest record as Çilapulapu
Early-16th-century Mactan Island chief (datu), the local leader who defeated Magellan's fleet at the Battle of Mactan in 1521.
19 June 1861–30 December 1896
José Rizal, full name José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
Late-19th-century Philippine nationalist writer, ophthalmologist, and reform movement leader, revered as a founding-level national hero of the Philippines.
新加坡
越南
1228–1300 (exact dates unknown)
Trần Hưng Đạo, birth name Trần Quốc Tuấn, also Hưng Đạo Vương
13th-century Vietnamese Trần dynasty commander, the military leader who twice defeated Mongol–Yuan invasions.
1765–1820 (exact dates disputed)
Nguyễn Du, Chinese name: 阮攸； courtesy name Tố Như, art name Thanh Hiên
18th–19th-century Vietnamese poet and official, author of *The Tale of Kiều* (Truyện Kiều), hailed as Vietnam's "great national poet".