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Stanley Ho

1921 - 2020

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Stanley Ho Hung-sun (Chinese: 何鴻燊; 25 November 1921 – 26 May 2020) was a Hong Kong and Macau billionaire businessman. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Ho has received more than 2,244,436 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Ho is the 169th most popular businessperson (down from 166th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Hong Kong (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Businessperson.

Stanley Ho is most famous for being the first person to introduce casinos to Macau.

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  • 58.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Stanley Ho ranks 169 out of 847. Before him are Tomáš Baťa, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Paul Elvstrøm, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Shin Kyuk-ho, and Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici. After him are Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Jack Daniel, Thomas J. Watson, Axel Springer, Johns Hopkins, and Bernard Baruch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Stanley Ho ranks 93. Before him are Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Seretse Khama, Dirk Bogarde, Iris Apfel, Donna Reed, and Shin Kyuk-ho. After him are Herta Bothe, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Ariel Ramírez, Jim Garrison, Raymond Goethals, and Neslişah Sultan. Among people deceased in 2020, Stanley Ho ranks 97. Before him are Roger Scruton, George Blake, Wim Suurbier, Chadwick Boseman, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, and Shin Kyuk-ho. After him are Ernesto Cardenal, Gérard Houllier, Peter Green, Florian Schneider, Jerry Stiller, and Irinej, Serbian Patriarch.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, Stanley Ho ranks 11 out of 115. Before him are Ma Ying-jeou (1950), Katrina Kaif (1983), Stephen Chow (1962), Andy Lau (1961), Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg (1964), and Tony Leung Chiu-wai (1962). After him are John Lone (1952), Margaret Chan (1947), Carrie Lam (1957), Nora Miao (1952), Maggie Cheung (1964), and Raymond Chow (1927).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Hong Kong

Among businesspeople born in Hong Kong, Stanley Ho ranks 1. 

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