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Meng Wanzhou

1972 - Today

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Meng Wanzhou (Chinese: 孟晚舟; born 13 February 1972), also known as Cathy Meng and Sabrina Meng, also informally known in China as the "Princess of Huawei", is a Chinese business executive. She is the deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer (CFO) of Huawei, which was founded by her father Ren Zhengfei. On 1 December 2018, Meng was detained and interrogated at Vancouver International Airport by the Canada Border Services Agency and subsequently placed under house arrest on extradition request by United States Department of Justice under the indictment of bank and wire fraud regarding financial transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran by Skycom, which had functioned as Huawei's Iran-based subsidiary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meng Wanzhou has received more than 1,833,230 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Meng Wanzhou is the 596th most popular businessperson (down from 388th in 2019), the 969th most popular biography from China (down from 767th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Chinese Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Meng Wanzhous by language

Over the past year Meng Wanzhou has had the most page views in the with 164,979 views, followed by English (78,095), and Japanese (6,222). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Wu Chinese (217.81%), Ukrainian (128.98%), and Catalan (124.07%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Meng Wanzhou ranks 596 out of 847Before her are Marina Berlusconi, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Donald Trump Jr., Josef Neckermann, Francesc Xavier Bultó, and Bernard Knubel. After her are Alan Eustace, Marc Randolph, Andrey Melnichenko, Steve Wynn, Christian von Koenigsegg, and Robert Ripley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Meng Wanzhou ranks 235Before her are Anders Thomas Jensen, Darío Silva, Peter Dubovský, Gabrielle Union, Dejan Petković, and Kiko. After her are Maya Rudolph, Yogi Adityanath, Andrey Melnichenko, Cristina Scabbia, Ewen Bremner, and Christian von Koenigsegg.

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In China

Among people born in China, Meng Wanzhou ranks 969 out of 1,610Before her are Liu Yang (1978), Wang Junxia (1973), John Dobson (1915), Taylor Wang (1940), Ding Liren (1992), and Ge You (1957). After her are Cui Jian (1961), Hao Haidong (1970), Zhu Jianhua (1963), Ma Jian (1953), Da-Wen Sun (1960), and Shi Zhengli (1964).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In China

Among businesspeople born in China, Meng Wanzhou ranks 15Before her are Lee Shau-kee (1929), Wang Jianlin (1954), Li Ning (1963), Henry Luce (1898), Zhong Shanshan (1954), and Li Shufu (1963). After her are Wendi Deng Murdoch (1968), Chai Ling (1966), Xu Rongmao (1950), Changpeng Zhao (1977), Zhang Yiming (1983), and Yang Huiyan (1981).