Nuraliza Osman (born 1977) is a

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

an lawyer and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Singapore Universe 2002 and represented her country at

Miss Universe 2002 Miss Universe 2002 was the 51st Miss Universe pageant, held at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico on 29 May 2002. At the end of the event, Denise Quiñones of Puerto Rico crowned Oxana Fedorova of Rus ...

Bayamón, Puerto Rico Bayamón (, ) is a Bayamón barrio-pueblo, city and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in Puerto Rico. Located on the northeastern coastal plain, it is bounded by Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Guaynabo to the east, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, Toa A ...

. Known affectionately as "Nura", she is of Dutch, Chinese, Indian and Indonesian descent.

Biography

Nuraliza Osman grew up in Singapore and was a top student and scholar at the Methodist Girls School where she won many accolades and excelled academically. She then attended

Victoria Junior College Victoria Junior College (VJC) is a co-educational junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education to boarding and day-students. Founded in 1984, the school stands on Marine Vista, less than one kilometre from the affiliated Victor ...

where she studied pre-medicine classes and French. Osman studied law at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

and in the United States. Osman joined the Miss Singapore Universe 2002 pageant and won the title and the right to represent

at the

pageant in Puerto Rico. She is the only Malay delegate who represented

in recent times. Osman was active in television from 2003. She was awarded the Best Newcomer actress in 2004 and hosted the first Malay women's talk show in 2017. After her reign as Miss Singapore Universe, she continued her law studies in New York and returned to Singapore thereafter to pursue her career in law as a

civil litigator Civil law is a major "branch of the law", in common law legal systems such as those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it stands in contrast to criminal law.Glanville Williams. ''Learning the Law''. Eleventh Edition. Stevens. 19 ...

for the leading law firm of Rajah and Tann. She was nominated Young Lawyer of the Year by the Law Society of Singapore and has remained a successful lawyer to date. In 2012, she represented Singapore as an athlete in freediving where she set a record for her country in a depth discipline. She speaks English, Malay,

Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian (; ) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. With over 2 ...

, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish.

References

External links

A Beautiful Mind

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