The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Hong Kong
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Hong Kong. This makes Hong Kong the birth place of the 48th most number of Businesspeople behind North Korea and Senegal.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Chinese Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Stanley Ho (1921 - 2020)
With an HPI of 57.84, Stanley Ho is the most famous Chinese Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Stanley Ho Hung-sun (Chinese: 何鴻燊; 25 November 1921 – 26 May 2020) was a Hong Kong-Macau billionaire businessman. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman, which was later sinicized to 何 (Ho). He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa. Ho was nicknamed variously Godfather and King of Gambling, reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 40 years. His wealth was divided among his daughter, Pansy Ho ($5.3 billion) who owns MGM Macau, fourth wife Angela Leong ($4.1 billion) who is managing director of SJM Holdings, and son Lawrence Ho ($2.6 billion) who owns City of Dreams. Ho was the founder and chairman of Shun Tak Holdings, through which he owned many businesses including entertainment, tourism, shipping, real estate, banking, and air transport. It is estimated that his businesses employ almost one-fourth of the workforce of Macau. Apart from Hong Kong and Macau, he also invested in mainland China, Portugal, North Korea where he operated a casino, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mozambique, Indonesia and East Timor. His opinions and statements on Hong Kong's real estate and commercial development had considerable sway on the market. In his later years, he had been involved in litigation with his sister, Winnie Ho, concerning the ownership of the Macau casino. Having suffered a stroke in July 2009, followed by a long period of recovery, Ho began steps in late 2010 to devolve his grip on his financial empire to his various wives and children. Ho died on 26 May 2020 at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as businesspeople born between 1921 and 1921. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased businesspeople include Stanley Ho.
