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Tainan (twn)

Taiwan

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Tainan ranks 5,797th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Creston, Iowa, Kapellen, Belgium, and Frechen. The most famous people from Tainan are Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Wu Hui-ju. Tainan has been the birth place of many businesspeople, and athletes. Tainan is located in Taiwan.

Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "prefectural capital" for its over 260-year history as the capital of Taiwan under Dutch rule, the Kingdom of Tungning and later Qing dynasty rule until 1887. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City". Tainan was classified as a "Sufficiency"-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network in 2020, but no longer be classfied in 2022, 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1963 and 1992, Tainan was the birth place of 5 globally memorable people, including Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Wu Hui-ju.

People Born in Tainan

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  • Photo of Wu Hui-ju

    Wu Hui-ju

    POLITICIAN

    1982 - Present

    HPI: 39.22

    Rank: 3

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Tainan were businesspeople (2), athletes (2), and politicians (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, businesspeople have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Tainan, including Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su. Whereas, throughout history, businesspeople have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Tainan, including Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Tainan since 1700.