The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Malaysia
This page contains a list of the greatest Malaysian Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Malaysia. This makes Malaysia the birth place of the 63rd most number of Businesspeople behind Iraq, and Kenya.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malaysian Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Malaysian Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Tony Fernandes (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 41.33, Tony Fernandes is the most famous Malaysian Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Anthony Francis Fernandes (born 30 April 1964) is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., which took over the first Malaysian budget airline, AirAsia. Fernandes turned AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. He is the owner of Caterham Group, the parent company of British car manufacturer Caterham Cars. Until July 2023, he was the majority shareholder of Queens Park Rangers Football Club.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Malaysian businesspeople born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Malaysian businesspeople include Tony Fernandes.
