INVENTOR

Momofuku Ando

1910 - 2007

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Momofuku Ando (Japanese: 安藤 百福, Hepburn: Andō Momofuku, March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007), born Go Pek-Hok (Chinese: 吳百福; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Pek-hok), was a Taiwanese-born Japanese inventor and businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Momofuku Ando has received more than 1,151,678 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Momofuku Ando is the 100th most popular inventor (down from 81st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Taiwan (up from 129th in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Inventor.

Momofuku Ando is most famous for inventing instant noodles in 1958.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Momofuku Ando ranks 100 out of 426. Before him are Daniel Swarovski, Elisha Otis, Franz Reichelt, Alphonse Bertillon, Johann Maria Farina, and Leo Fender. After him are Robert Noyce, Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, and Joseph Pilates.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Momofuku Ando ranks 49. Before him are Paul Flory, Luise Rainer, Edvard Kardelj, Pierre Schaeffer, António de Spínola, and Ne Win. After him are Erich Kempka, Kim Il, Said bin Taimur, Farid al-Atrash, Francisco Varallo, and Galina Ulanova. Among people deceased in 2007, Momofuku Ando ranks 35. Before him are Arthur Kornberg, Ashraf Marwan, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Deborah Kerr, Ike Turner, and Stanley Miller. After him are Alan MacDiarmid, Henri Troyat, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Lois Maxwell, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Momofuku Ando ranks 5 out of 116. Before him are Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Teresa Teng (1953), Lee Teng-hui (1923), and Ang Lee (1954). After him are William Lai (1959), Chen Shui-bian (1950), Yuan T. Lee (1936), Terry Gou (1950), Chen Chien-jen (1951), Teruo Nakamura (1919), and Shu Qi (1976).

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Among INVENTORS In Taiwan

Among inventors born in Taiwan, Momofuku Ando ranks 1. 

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