Abdul Latiff bin Abdul Razak

Dr. Abdul Latiff bin Abdul Razak (1889 – 26 July 1956) was a Malay physician in British Malaya. A contemporaneous obituary in The Straits Times described him as a "Malay pioneer in medicine". He is included in Faridah Abd Rashid’s biographical compilation of early Malay doctors in Malaya and Singapore (1900–1957).

Education Faridah Abd Rashid identifies Abdul Latiff as belonging to the early cohort of Malay doctors trained through the colonial medical education system centred in Singapore in the early twentieth century.

Career Abdul Latiff served within the colonial medical framework during a period when Malay participation in professional public service positions was expanding. The naming of Jalan Doktor Latiff within the Hospital Kuala Lumpur vicinity, noted in historical literature discussing early Malay physicians.

These commemorations reflect continuing acknowledgment of his role in the early development of Malay participation in Western medicine.