Yusof Bin Ishak is one of the Malay immigrants. He was the Singaporean politician and was the first president of Singapore, serving from 1965-1970. His portrait also appears on the Singapore Portrait series currency notes introduced in 1999. Yusof was the descendant of prominent Sumatran Malay Datuk Jannatun who migrated to Penang in 1759. He was of Minangkabau descent from his father's side while his mother was a Malay from the Lankat region in Indonesia. His brother was a Malayan journalist and freedom fighter. He studied at Raffles Instituition.Following Singapore's depature from Malaysia in 1965, he served as the first president of the Republic until his death in 1970.
Were there any important landmarks named after Yusof Ishak in Singapore?
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