by Hla Min

Update : September 2026

Pre-war စစ်ကြို

U Kyaw Myint ဦးကျော်မြင့်

• Matriculated from Government High School with Distinction in all subjects
• Former Supreme Court Justice
• Chair of Tribunal to try ဂဠုန်ဦးစော Galon U Saw
• Dean of Law
• Head of Law Firm
• Dr. Thane Oke Kyaw Myint (SPHS60) wrote a series of articles about his father

U Ba Khin ဦးဘခင်

• Matriculated from St. Paul’s High School; First in the whole of Burma
• First native Auditor General
• Headed four Government Departments
• ဝိပဿနာ တရားပြ Vipassana Teacher (of Ledi Lineage)
• His mentor : Saya Thet
• His mentee : S N Goenka

1951 – 1965

• St. Paul’s High School has a Roll of Honor for Top Matriculates in the HSF & Matriculation Examination. It is now on display at the St. Paul’s Museum.
• SPHS had Five Top positions in 1963, Four Top positions in 1959, Three Top positions in 1965, Two Top positions in 1952 & 1958, One Top position in 1951 & 1954.

• George Chapman (St. Paul’s) — 1951
• Nyunt Tin ညွန့်တင် (St. Paul’s) — 1952
• Hla Shwe လှရွှေ (Yegyaw Methodist) — 1953
• Koon Yin Chu (St. Paul’s) — 1954
• Lily Hwang (Methodist English) — 1955
• Ye Myint ရဲမြင့် (St. Peter’s) — 1956
• Htin Kyaw ထင်ကျော် (Sacred Heart) — 1957

• Soe Win စိုးဝင်း (St. Paul’s) — 1958
• Frankie Ohn အုန်း (St. Paul’s) — 1959
• Austin Kyan (English Methodist) — 1960
• Lina Ong (English Methodist) — 1961

• Khin Maung Uခင်မောင်ဦး (St. Paul’s) — 1963
• Cherry Hlaing လှိုင် (St. John’s Convent) & Lyn Aung Thet လင်းအောင်သက် (English Methodist)— 1964

• Bernard Khaw (St. Paul’s) — 1965

အထွေထွေ General

First ရတဲ့ ကျောင်းများ Schools

• St. Paul’s High School — Prewar, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1965
• English Methodist — 1954, 1960, 1961, 1964
• ရေကျော် Yegyaw Methodist — 1953
• St. Peter’s — 1955
• Sacred Heart — 1956
• St. John’s Convent — 1964
• Government High School — Prewar

ဘာသာရပ် / Profession

• Architecture – 1954
• Audit – Prewar
• Chemical Engineering – 1965
• Chemistry – 1958, 1965
• Law – Prewar
• Medicine / Surgery – 1952, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
• Physics – 1953, 1956, 1959
• Unspecified – 1951

1964

• New Education System ပညာရေးစနစ်သစ်
• တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်ခွင့် အတွက် ILA စသုံး

1965

• ကျောင်းများ ပြည်သူပိုင်သိမ်း Nationalization of schools on April 1

Update

• Some Top Matriculates are GBNF. They include U Kyaw Myint, U Ba Khin, Dr. Nyunt Tin, Dr. Ye Myint & Dr. Lina Ong.