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Terry Gou

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Terry Gou (Chinese: 郭台銘; pinyin: Guō Táimíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koeh Tâi-bêng; born 18 October 1950) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. Founded in 1974, Foxconn grew to become an international business empire, becoming the largest private employer and exporter in mainland China with a workforce of 1.2 million. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Gou has received more than 1,153,870 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Terry Gou is the 322nd most popular businessperson (down from 269th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Taiwanese Businessperson.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Terry Gou ranks 322 out of 601. Before him are Andrea Agnelli, Lei Jun, Bob Iger, Suge Knight, David Koch, and Martin Winterkorn. After him are Peter Thiel, Vicente Calderón, Roy E. Disney, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Maurizio Arrivabene, and Armand Hammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Terry Gou ranks 172. Before him are Luis Donaldo Colosio, Eddie Clarke, Michel Lotito, Wei Jingsheng, Otto Pérez Molina, and Lindsay Duncan. After him are Anton Ondruš, Moshe Ya'alon, Kozo Arai, Waldemar Cierpinski, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, and Huey Lewis.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Terry Gou ranks 14 out of 97. Before him are Yuan T. Lee (1936), Su Tseng-chang (1947), Zheng Keshuang (1670), Brigitte Lin (1954), Shu Qi (1976), and Takeshi Kaneshiro (1973). After him are Yang Chuan-kwang (1933), Jensen Huang (1963), Jerry Yang (1968), Frank Hsieh (1946), Peter Chen (1947), and Wu Den-yih (1948).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Taiwan

Among businesspeople born in Taiwan, Terry Gou ranks 2. Before him are Steve Chen (1978). After him are Jensen Huang (1963), Jerry Yang (1968), Lisa Su (1969), and Kai-Fu Lee (1961).

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