Tan Boon Heong
Badminton Player
Professional Malaysian badminton player who, along with his doubles partner, was ranked fourth in the world in 2013.
He won the 2004 World Junior Championships with his then-doubles partner, Hoon Thien How.
He and his partner, Koo Kien Keat, were ranked as the #1 badminton doubles team in the world at the end of the first decade of the 2000s.
His family lived in Alor Setar, Malaysia, at the time of his birth.
He is a contemporary of Lee Chong Wei, another Malaysian badminton player.