What is Sellapan Ramanathan?
{{Infobox President | honorific-prefix = | name = Sellapan Ramanathan<br />செல்லப்பன் ராமநாதன் | smallimage = | image = President of Singapore SR Nathan.jpg | caption = S.R. Nathan | order = 6th [[President of Singapore]] | primeminister = [[Goh Chok Tong]]<br />[[Lee Hsien Loong]] | vicepresident = | term_start = 1 September 1999 | term_end = 31 August 2011 | predecessor = [[Ong Teng Cheong]] | successor = [[Tony Tan Keng Yam]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|07|03|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Singapore]] | death_date = 22 August 2016 (aged 92) | death_place = Singapore | spouse = Umila Umi Nandey | profession = [[Civil service|Civil servant]] | signature = | footnotes = | | blank1 = [[Religion]] | data1 = [[Hinduism]] }} '''Sellapan Ramanathan''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: செல்லப்பன் ராமநாதன்; (July 3, 1924 &ndash; August 22, 2016) was the sixth [[Presidents of Singapore|President of the Republic of Singapore]]. Often referred to as '''S. R. Nathan''', he became president on September 1, 1999. == Biography == === Early life === Nathan was an [[India]]n [[Singapore]]an; his childhood was spent with his two older brothers and parents, V. Sellapan and Apiram, in [[Muar]], [[Johor]], in a house near the sea. By then the young Nathan had returned to where he was born, [[Singapore]], to live with an uncle, and received his early education in several Anglo-Chinese Schools, such as the Rangoon Road Afternoon School, and later [[Victoria School]]. He started working before completing his studies. During the [[Japanese Occupation of Singapore]], Nathan worked for the [[Japan]]ese civilian police as a [[translator]].<ref>{{cite news | url = http://sam11.moe.gov.sg/racialharmony/SecondarySchool/stories_ranaway.html | format = reprint at [[Ministry of Education, Singapore]] | publisher = [[The Straits Ti