Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali
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Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali S.S.M. (Toh Puan) |
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| ستى حازمة بينتي محمد علي | |
Siti Hasmah with her husband, Mahathir Mohamad.
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| Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia | |
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In office 16 July 1981 – 31 October 2003 |
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| Monarch |
Ahmad Shah Iskandar Azlan Shah Jaafar Salahuddin Mizan Zainal Abidin (Regent) Sirajuddin |
| Prime Minister | Mahathir Mohamad |
| Preceded by | Toh Puan Suhaila Tan Sri Noah |
| Succeeded by | Endon Mahmood |
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Siti Hasmah binti Mohamad Ali 12 July 1926 Klang, Selangor, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) |
| Citizenship | Malaysian |
| Spouse(s) | Mahathir Mohamad |
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Marina Mahathir Mirzan Mahathir Melinda Mahathir Mokhzani Mahathir Mukhriz Mahathir Maizura Mahathir Mazhar Mahathir |
| Alma mater | University of Malaya, Singapore |
| Occupation | Medical doctor |
| Religion | Islam |
Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah binti Haji Mohamad Ali is the wife of the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. She served as wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia for 22 years from 1981–2003.
She is currently the chancellor of the Multimedia University of Malaysia.
Born in Klang, Selangor on 12 July 1926, Siti Hasmah was an ethnic Malay of Minangkabau descent from Rao, West Sumatera. She obtained her MBBS from the University of Malaya in Singapore. Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah was one of the first Malay women to enroll for a medical course at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore (now the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) after World War II.
In 1955 she graduated as a medical doctor from the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, which was then located in Singapore. She subsequently joined the government health service. She was one of the first Malay woman doctors in then Malaya. She married Mahathir the following year in August. Their first child, Marina, was born in 1957.
In the 1960s, she attended a public health certificate program in the University of Michigan.
Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed Medical Officer in the Maternal and Child Health Department, and in 1974, she was the first woman to be appointed the State Maternal and Child Health Officer.
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