Lim Han Hoe

Sir Han Hoe Lim (; 27 April 1894 – 23 March 1983) was a Singaporean physician and politician.

Education Lim was educated at Chung Cheng High School, St Andrew's School, Raffles Institution before enrolling into King Edward VII College of Medicine.

Lim was the chairman of the city's Straits Chinese British Association from 1930 to 1932, municipal commissioner of the Municipal Commission, a Justice of the Peace, as well as a member of numeral public bodies like the Chinese Advisory Board and the Education Committee.

Lim was appointed as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements in 1933, He was not released until the end of the Second World War in 1945.

After the war, he was appointed to the Singapore Advisory Council in June 1946 after the resignation of Wee Swee Teow, where served as an unofficial member from 1946 to 1948 and a senior unofficial member of the Executive Council of Singapore from 1948 to 1951.

In December 1947, the governor of Singapore decided to introduce income tax in Singapore, against the advice of the Singapore Advisory Council. The unofficial members of the council, including Lim, decided to resign in protest of the decision. Lim later decided not to resign and also proposed to ask the two resigned members to withdraw their resignations.

After the war, he helped found the University of Malaya and was appointed a member of the Public Service Commission (PSC) from 1952 to 1956, serving as its chairman for less than a year in 1956.

Later in his life, he withdrew from politics as Singapore gradually gained self-governance and subsequently independence.

Honours On 12 June 1941, Lim was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public services in the Straits Settlements.

In 1946, Lim became the second Malayan Chinese to receive the honour of knighthood for public services in the Straits Settlements.