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Lee Kuan Yew was born in September 16 1923 in Singapore .

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In 1936 Lee Kuan Yew was put in Raffles Institution . In 1941 , he studied at Raffles College on scholarship.

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In 1946 , he enrolled the London School of Economics in 1946 . After that he transferred to Fitzwilliam Hall at Cambridge University in esrly 1947 after enrolling at the London School of Economics

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his Starred First for Part II Law in 1949 placed him at the very top of his cohort, above two contemporaries who became Professors of Law in Cambridge, and gained for him Fitzwilliam's Whitlock Prize.

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He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1950.

Politics was central to his life. Back in Singapore, as a barrister he represented many cases of actual or alleged rebellious behaviour against the colonial government.

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The Late Lee Kuan Yew got married to Kwa Geok Choo

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In 1952 , Lee Kuan Yew and Kwa Geok Choo got their first child, Lee Hsien Loong

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The Malayan Communist Party was fomenting trouble, but Lee established the non-Communist People’s Action Party in 1954 and became the first Prime Minister in 1959, when Britain ceded all internal responsibilities to Singapore.

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In 1955 , Lee Kuan Yew got his second child, Lee Wei Ling

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Lee Kuan Yew got his third child , Lee Hsien Yang

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At that time, Lee Kuan Yew favoured a merger between Singapore and Malaya, and in 1963 the fully-independent Federation of Malaysia was formed, incorporating Singapore, peninsular Malaya, and Sabah and Sarawak in Borneo.  This lasted only until 1965, when Singapore left the Federation and became independent; that the union was unviable was a matter of great regret to him.

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Without giving further instructions on who should act in his absence, he went into isolation for six weeks, unreachable by phone, on an isolated chalet. According to then-deputy prime minister Toh Chin Chye, the parliament hung in "suspended animation" until the sitting in December that year.

In his memoirs, Lee said that he was unable to sleep. Upon learning of Lee's condition from the British High Commissioner to Singapore

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On 15 February 2013,Lee Kuan yew was admitted to Singapore General Hospital after suffering a prolonged cardiac dysrhythmia, which was followed stoppage blood flow to the brain.

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On 23 March 2015, Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore and co-founder of the People's Action Party, died at the age of 91 at 03:18 Singapore Standard Time (UTC+08:00), after having been hospitalised at the Singapore General Hospital with severe pneumonia since 5 February that year.