Maha Sinnathamby

Maha Sinnathamby
AM
Sinnathamby, 2015
Born (1939-12-10) 10 December 1939 (age 84)
Rantau, Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
Occupations
Spouse
Yoga Sinnathamby
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(m. 1968)​
Children4

Maha Sinnathamby AM (born 10 December 1939 in Rantau, Seremban, Malaysia) is an Australian businessman and property developer.[2][3] He is the entrepreneur behind the Greater Springfield Development in Queensland, the largest master-planned community in Australia.[4]

In 2019, Sinnathamby's Springfield City Group was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame in recognition of their visionary entrepreneurship in establishing Springfield, as a nation-building project and Australia's first privately-constructed city.[5]

  1. ^ "Maha Sinnathamby ... the man behind Australia's largest master-planned community". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Member of the Order of Australia – Maha Sinnathamby". Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  3. ^ Schmidt, Lucinda (27 January 2016). "Australia's 50 Richest People". Forbes. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Greater Springfield named Australia's best master planned development – Greater Springfield". 20 March 2015. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  5. ^ "2019 Hall of Fame". Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame. State Library of Queensland. 2019. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.