Syed Mohamed bin Ahmed Alsagoff

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Syed Mohamed bin Syed Ahmad Alsagoff ({{langx|ar|سيد محمد بن سيد أحمد السقاف}} {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|Sayyid Muḥammad bin Sayyid Aḥmad as-saqqāf}}) (1836 – July 3, 1906) was an Hadhrami Muslim born in Singapore who was known as Nong Chik.

He was the most prominent member of the Alsagoff family. He received two land concessions from Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor; one in Kukup where he could print his own currency and the other in Kampong Nong Chik.

He was also involved in Singapore's civil service undertaking several diplomatic posts. The first post he held was the Ottoman consul,{{cite book |author1=Arndt Graf |author2=Susanne Schroter |author3= Edwin Wieringa |title= Aceh: History, Politics and Culture |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Bot-AT4wZPAC&pg=PA34 |id= ([http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/wps/wps05_036.pdf PDF version]) |year=2010 |publisher= Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn= 978-981-4279-12-3 |pages=34–}} where the Osmanieh Order inducted him into their ranks after he became consul.{{cite book|author1=Ulrike Freitag|author2=William G. Clarence-Smith|title=Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s to 1960s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBTbS4eNGp8C&q=alsagoff+consul+ottoman&pg=PA190|year=1997|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-10771-1|pages=190–}} Syed Mohamed was also asked to conduct diplomacy on behalf of the Sultanate of Aceh during its conflict with the Dutch.{{cite book|author1=Arndt Graf|author2=Susanne Schroter|author3=Edwin Wieringa|title=Aceh: History, Politics and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bot-AT4wZPAC&q=alsagoff+consul+ottoman&pg=PA35|year=2010|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-981-4279-12-3|pages=35–}}

He died on July 3, 1906.{{cite web |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/IDDOC/NLBDM/vocab/PMasq7jXPSw |access-date=2023-07-29 |title=The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.}}{{Dead link |date=July 2023}} After his death, his sons developed the Bukit Tunggal Estate in the 1920s. The Madrasah Alsagoff Al-Arabiah (founded in 1912) was built according to his will.{{cite web|url=https://alsagoff.edu.sg/learn-history/|title=Alsagoff, Syed Mohamed Ahmed|publisher=nlb.gov.sg|accessdate=2020-11-04|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029110031/https://alsagoff.edu.sg/learn-history/|url-status=dead}}