Anwar Fazal, Born in Sungei Bayor (Selama) but resided in Taiping. Anwar is the founder and also Chairman of the Taiping Peace Initiative and various non-governmental organisations in Malaysia. Felix Iruthayanathan, Former owner of company Technoprofit and first introduced WiFi calls to British company EE Limited Imee Ooi, music producer, composer, arranger and vocalist. Lim Swee Aun, Former Health Minister of Malaysia. Uthaya Sankar SB, Malaysian writer from Aulong Lama, Taiping. Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister for Singapore. Transportation Rail Taiping railway station was the first operational train station in Malaysia. Originally, the station served the local tin mines, transporting ore to Port Weld (now Kuala Sepetang) and mine workers to their dedicated settlements. In the 1930s, railway connections to major towns like Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore started. The Taiping-Port Weld line was dismantled by KTMB in the 1980s. The station was previously served only by KTM Intercity trains, with a one-way trip to KL Sentral taking about six hours. Since 1 July 2015, the station is also served by KTM ETS's ETS Ekspres service, reducing travel times on the same route to about three hours. Taiping is also a stop on the ETS Transit service between Ipoh and Padang Besar. See also Wesley Methodist Church, Taiping Perak References External links Towns in Perak