Chung Thye Phin MSC, JP was a Chinese Malayan business magnate, planter, miner, bureaucrat, and philanthropist who served as the last Kapitan Cina of Perak and Malaya. He was reported to be the richest man in Penang.

Sir Ernest Woodford Birch, was a British colonial administrator who served as the eighth British resident of Perak (1904–1911).