Syed Hussein Alatas

Yang Berbahagia Professor Dato' Dr. Syed Hussein Alatas DSPN
سيد حسين العطاس‎
4th Vice-Chancellor of University of Malaya
In office May 1988 – January 1991
Preceded by	Ungku Abdul Aziz
Succeeded by	Mohd Taib Osman
1st President of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia
In office 1968–1971
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Lim Chong Eu
Personal details
Born	Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas (1928-09-17)17 September 1928 Buitenzorg, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia)
Died	23 January 2007(2007-01-23) (aged 78) Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Resting place	Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Political party	Gerakan (1968–1973) PEKEMAS (1973–1978) Berjasa (1982–1983) Independent (1983–2007)
Spouse	Zaharah Abdullah
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam

Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas (Arabic: سيد حسین العطاس Sayyid Ḥusayn al-ʿAṭṭās; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.