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Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College (Chinese: 佛敎葉紀南紀念中學) is the first secondary school on the Tsing Yi Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Located in Cheung Ching Estate, the school was founded by Hong Kong Buddhist Association in September, 1978 with buildings from Hong Kong Government and funds from Yip Hon (葉漢), a tycoon in Hong Kong and Macau. The school was named after Yip Hon's father, Yip Kei Nam (葉紀南).
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Yip Hon Yip Hon () (1904 – 7 May 1997) was a gambling tycoon in South China. His wealth was estimated to be HK$ 100 million. In his childhood, he stayed in Kong Mun of Kwangtung, and usually participated in gambling with his pocket money. He was nicknamed "Kwai Wong" (鬼王) (translated as "Ghost King".)
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Warren Anderson (Australian businessman) Warren Perry Anderson (born 1942) is an Australian businessman and speculative investor whose net worth in 1990 was estimated by the BRW magazine at $190 million, although the following year he was reported to have debts of $500 million. and filed for bankruptcy.
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Bill Wyllie Bill Wyllie (c. 1932 - 13 March 2006) was a Western Australian businessman who was best known for his career as a "corporate doctor" in Hong Kong; and most notably for his role in setting up Hutchison Whampoa. In 2003, Australia's "Business Review Weekly" estimated that his personal wealth was approximately $450 million. The Wyllie Group, which he founded in 1991, has interests in mining and real estate, as well as formerly having a minority interest in the Burswood Casino.
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Chong Moon Lee Chong Mong Lee (born 1928) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded Diamond Multimedia in 1982.
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Tsai Wan-lin Tsai Wan-lin () (November 10, 1924 – September 27, 2004) was a Taiwanese businessman who, at the peak of his wealth in 1996, was considered to be the fifth richest person in the world, with a family net worth of US$12.2 billion. At the time of his death in 2004, he was the richest man in Taiwan with a fortune of US$4.6 billion (NT$156.3 billion), ranked 94th worldwide. He founded the Lin Yuan Group, a large banking and insurance group.
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Clarence Dillon Clarence Dillon (September 27, 1882 - April 14, 1979) was an American financier, and namesake of Dillon, Read & Co., an investment bank. In 1957, Fortune Magazine listed Dillon as one of the richest men in the United States, with a fortune then estimated to be from $150 to $200 million.
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S. P. Hinduja Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (born 28 November 1935) is an Indian-born British billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the primary shareholder and chairman of Hinduja Group of companies. As of May 2017, together with his brother Gopichand he is the UK's richest man. Since the 1990s, he has been consistently ranked among the UK and Asia's wealthiest people. In May 2017, Hinduja topped the "Sunday Times" Rich List with an estimated wealth of GBP 16.2 billion ($21 billion). Based on the rich list compiled by Asian Media & Marketing Group, Hinduja's wealth is estimated at GBP 19 billion ($24.7 billion). The "Forbes" List in March 2016 ranked him and his brother GP as the world's 58th richest billionaire family with an estimated wealth of $16.4 billion.
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Eugene Higgins Eugene Higgins was the rich heir to a carpet-making business who was a "bon viveur", sportsman and philanthropist. He was a bachelor and when he died in 1948, his estate went to establish the Higgins Trust which was, at that time, the eleventh largest of its kind in the USA. The funds from this trust endowed chairs at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale universities.
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Chaleo Yoovidhya Chaleo Yoovidhya (Thai: เฉลียว อยู่วิทยา , rtgs: Chaliao Yuwitthaya ,  ] ; 17 August 1923 – 17 March 2012) was a Thai businessman and investor. He was the originator of Krating Daeng (กระทิงแดง ) and was co-creator of the Red Bull brands of energy drinks. At the time of his death in 2012 at the age of 88, he was listed as the third richest person in Thailand, with an estimated net worth of US$5 billion.
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Goodwin Gaw Goodwin Gaw (born 1967/68) is a Hong Kong property investor, the chairman of Gaw Capital Partners, which manages US$8 billion of property investments, including the Gaw family's money, estimated at US$1.5 billion.
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Pierre Lagrange Pierre Philippe Alexandre Lagrange (born 15 March 1962) is a Belgian hedge fund manager, financier, and a co-founder of GLG Partners. His net worth is estimated at £500 million according to the Sunday Times
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Harry Triguboff Harry Oscar Triguboff {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 March 1933 in [[Dalian, [[Liaoning]]), is an Australian [[billionaire]] [[real estate development|real estate developer]], and one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of [[Meriton]] and is known as "high-rise Harry". In May 2016, he was declared the wealthiest person in Australia by [[net worth]] in the annual "[[Australian Financial Review|Financial Review]]" [[BRW Rich 200|Rich 200]] list, yet held the mantle for only one year.
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Thomas Mellon Evans Thomas Mellon Evans (September 8, 1910 – July 17, 1997) was a financier who was one of the early corporate raiders in American business as well as a philanthropist and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who won the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
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Choe Jun Choe Jun (1884–1970) was a businessman and philanthropist in early 20th-century Korea. He was born in Gyeongju, in present-day South Korea. His family, known as the "Choe Bujatjip," had been known since the 17th century for their wealth and public-spiritedness. After the liberation of Korea in 1945, he gave much of his fortune to the Yeungnam University Foundation. He spent his later years in Suji, Yongin (Gyeonggi province).
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Zhou Zhengyi Zhou Zhengyi (; born 23 April 1961, in Yangpu District, Shanghai; Known in Hong Kong as Chau Ching Ngai) is a prominent businessman and property developer from Shanghai, China. Zhou profited handsomely from Shanghai's real estate boom in the late 1990s to early 2000s, and was once described as the 11th richest man in China, with personal assets totalling US$320 million. In November 2007, Zhou was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for stock manipulation and fraud. He is on the "Most Wanted" list of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong.
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Fan Li Fan Li () from the Spring and Autumn period, is a prominent Chinese statesman, military strategist, economist, philanthropist, Taoist, a founder of Chuism (楚学), and the founding father of the Chinese commercial business. He was born in 517 BC. He is considered the most wealthiest Chinese in the five thousand years of the Chinese civilization. He famously became super wealthy three times, and each time gave away everything he had, and is knowns as the first and most charitable person in the Chinese history. He is a prominent member of the Fan family, and is worshipped as a "God of Wealth" by the Chinese. The most beautiful Chinese woman of all time Xi Shi is said to be his lover/wife.
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Juan Abelló Juan Abelló (born 16 December 1941) is a Spanish businessman and art collector. In 2015 "Forbes" estimated his wealth at $1.84 billion.
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David Azrieli David Joshua Azrieli, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (Hebrew: דוד יהושע עזריאלי‎ ‎ ; May 10, 1922 – July 9, 2014) was an Israeli–Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion (as of March 2013), Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the ninth wealthiest Canadian and 401st in the world.
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Thomas Fortune Ryan Thomas Fortune Ryan (1851–1928) was an American tobacco, insurance and transportation magnate. Although he lived in New York City for much of his adult career, Ryan was perhaps the greatest benefactor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond in the decades before the Great Depression. In addition to paying for schools, hospitals and other charitable works, Ryan's donations paid for the construction of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia. Ryan also made significant donations to Catholic institutions in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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Carl Berg Carl Edwin Berg (born 1938) is an American businessman, real estate investor, and venture capitalist who has been included in "Forbes" magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America numerous times. As of March 2013, his net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion.
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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and Girish Christy (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar), was the 24th ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Mysore from 1894 until his death in 1940. At the time of his death, he was also one of the world's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated in 1940 to be worth US$400 million, equivalent to $56 billion at 2010 prices.