Jalan Kee Ann is named in honour of a Malaccan planter, Seet Kee Ann (1862-1924) who gave the Municipality the land on which the road was built. He was a leader of the Hokkien community, as his father and grandfather had been before him. He made his fortune in tapioca, gambier, and pepper planting, and as partner and manager in an opium farm in Malacca. In 1895 Mr. Seet was made a Municipal Commissioner for Malacca, and in 1901 a Justice of the Peace. He was a managing trustee of the Cheng Hoon Teng temple, the oldest temple in the country.