| Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim | |
|---|---|
| Attorney-General of Singapore | |
| In office 9 Aug 1965 – 31 Jan 1967 |
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| Preceded by | Nil |
| Succeeded by | Tan Boon Teik |
| State Advocate-General of the State of Singapore | |
| In office 25 June 1959 – 8 August 1965 |
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| Preceded by | Nil |
| Succeeded by | Nil |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1916 |
| Died | 1999 |
| Nationality | Singapore |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Tan Sri Datuk Prof Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim (b. 1916 - d. 1999) was a distinguished Singaporean law professor.
He was educated at Kampong Glam Malay School (now Victoria School), Raffles Institution, and Raffles College. He received the Queen's Scholarship in 1936 which enabled him to study at St. John's College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1939 with 1st Class Economics Tripos I and 1st Class Law Tripos II. and Cambridge University.
In 1948, he ran as an independent in the Municipal Commission Election in Singapore and won.
He became Singapore's first State Advocate General in 1959, and Singapore's first non-British Attorney-General in 1966
Prof Ahmad moved to Malaysia in 1969.
In 1972, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya
He was a key person in the merger talks between Singapore and Malaysia in the early 1960s. He was also the legal expert in the Singapore delegation to the Malaysia Talks in London in 1963, which discussed independence from Britain.
Former Senior Cabinet minister Dr. Goh Keng Swee, once described him as a man of "tremendous breadth and depth of intellect, whose ability as a legal draftsman is unsurpassed in this country".
Prof Ahmad was also the brother of Hollywood actor, Cal Bellini (real name Khalid Ibrahim).
He died in 1999.