 Bhai Kishan Singh was educated in Lahore.He was the first Sikh Principal of Khalsa College, Amritsar, the pioneer Sikh institution in India.He was a professor of Maths at the College Amritsar in 1987 and on April 30, 1898, when the principal Mr Vere O’Ratigan, left the College, Kishen Singh was called upon to officiate as Principal, thus becoming the first Sikh Principal of the College.