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Tung Chee-hwa

1937 - Today

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Tung Chee-hwa (Chinese: 董建華; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) between 2005 and 2023. Born as the eldest son of Chinese shipping magnate Tung Chao Yung, who founded Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Tung took over the family business after his father's death in 1981. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tung Chee-hwa has received more than 449,576 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tung Chee-hwa is the 8,553rd most popular politician (down from 7,110th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from China (down from 510th in 2019) and the 338th most popular Chinese Politician.

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  • 450k

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  • 53.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tung Chee-hwa ranks 8,553 out of 15,577Before him are Floris III, Count of Holland, Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Fujiwara no Fuhito, Iwakura Tomomi, Kujō Yoritsune, and Artavasdes I of Armenia. After him are Pietro Lando, William III, Duke of Bavaria, Agapenor, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Tevfik Esenç, and Mohammad bin Salman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tung Chee-hwa ranks 155Before him are Baden Powell, Alberto Spencer, Mintimer Shaimiev, Eduard Uspensky, Ratan Tata, and Eduard Streltsov. After him are Viktor Ponedelnik, Naji al-Ali, Peter Stein, Viacheslav Chornovil, Marie Dubois, and Richard Jordan.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tung Chee-hwa ranks 587 out of 1,392Before him are Cao Yu (1910), Jianzhen (688), Li Shangyin (813), Deng Sui (81), Xu Shichang (1855), and Li Cheng (919). After him are Zhang Ziyi (1979), Zheng Jing (1642), Bo Gu (1907), Mang of Xia (null), Wen Zhengming (1470), and Consort Ban (-48).

Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Tung Chee-hwa ranks 338Before him are Sengge Rinchen (1811), Wang Ming (1904), Jin Midi (-134), Ragibagh Khan (1320), Deng Sui (81), and Xu Shichang (1855). After him are Zheng Jing (1642), Bo Gu (1907), Ouyang Xun (557), Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa (1924), Liu Zhiyuan (895), and Peng Zhen (1902).