1. Name: Naina Mohamed
2. Occupation: Merchant, Philanthropist
3. Date and place of birth: 1870s, India
4. Date of death: 1930s
5. Contributions:
- Supplier of pharmaceutical products
- Agent importing ,exporting and distributing various types of medicines from the US and UK
- Sold consumer and household products such as Planters Peanut Butter
- Agent for bleaching products Clorox
- Produced and translated Al-Quran in Tamil
- Donated money to Muslims to start business
- Set up scholarship for Indian Muslim in Kuala Lumpur to further their education
Source:
Loh Wei Ling, Badriyah Haji Salleh, Mahani Musa, Wong Yee Tuan & Marcus Langdon (Eds). (2013). Biographical Dictionary of Mercantile Personalities of Penang . Kuala Lumpur: THINK CITY and MBRAS.
