Tainan
Tainan ranks 5,797th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Creston, Iowa, Kapellen, Belgium, and Frechen. Memorable people born in Tainan include Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Cheng I-ching. 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 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under the 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 is classified as a "Sufficiency"-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1963 and 1992, Tainan was the birth place of 4 globally memorable people, including Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Cheng I-ching.
People Born in Tainan
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Jensen Huang
BUSINESSPERSON
1963 - Present
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 1
Lisa Su
BUSINESSPERSON
1969 - Present
HPI: 53.26
Rank: 2
Cheng I-ching
ATHLETE
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.52
Rank: 3
Chen Wei-ling
ATHLETE
1982 - Present
HPI: 36.87
Rank: 4
Newly Added People Born in Tainan
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Most individuals born in present day Tainan were businesspeople (2), and athletes (2), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
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.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 0 globally memorable people born in Tainan since 1700.
