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Top 20 List of World’s Richest People In Taiwan- Taiwanese Richest Men and Women

Winston Wen-Yang Wong (is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), by his second wife. Wong is now a widower with a son and a daughter after his wife succumbed to stomach cancer in 2007. In 2000, Wong and Jiang Mianheng co-founded the $1.63 U.S. billion Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. joint venture in Shanghai, China. ).

Terry Gou (is a Taiwanese tycoon who leads Hon Hai Precision, a company that manufactures electronics on contract for other companies. Gou founded Hon Hai in Taiwan in 1974 with ten workers to make plastic parts for television sets. In 1988 he opened his first factory in Mainland China, in Shenzhen, where his largest factory remains today.).

Tsai Wan-tsai (is a Taiwanese banker. He is one of the brothers of Tsai Wan-lin, and an uncle of Tsai Hong-tu. Tsai Wan-tsai was the former legislator of Legislative Yuan, the national parliament of Taiwan. He was also the founder of Fubon Group.).

Cher Wang (is a Taiwanese entrepreneur. Wang is a co-founder and the chairperson of the HTC Corporation and VIA Technologies. Her father was Wang Yung-ching, who was one of the richest individuals in Taiwan. Her husband is Wen Chi Chen, the CEO of VIA Technologies. Wang and others founded VIA in 1987 and HTC in 1997.).

Jeffrey Koo Sr. (is a Taiwanese banker. He is a nephew of Koo Chen-fu and Koo Kuan-min. Koo Sr. is the chairman of Chinatrust, a financial holding company.).

Tsai Eng-Meng (Famous Taiwanese businessman, billionaire, founder of a large trading company Want Want. His company Want Want was founded not by him but by his father – in 1962. At that time it was a small organization, which was called I Lan Foods Industrial Co.).

Tsai Hong-tu (is an entrepreneur and banker. Tsai Hong-tu is the Chairman of the Board of Cathay Financial Holdings. Inherited stakes of the Company with brothers Tsai Cheng-da and Tsai T.Y. when father Tsai Wan-lin died in 2004. Family also controls Cathay Real Estate, a Taiwan property developer.).

Lin Rong-San (is a Taiwanese politician, publisher and businessman. He was the founder of Union Bank of Taiwan, and the publisher of Liberty Times and Taipei Times.).

Chen Wen-Chi (has been President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc. since 1992, and has overseen its transition from chipset designer to a leading developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions. Prior to VIA, Chen co-founded and was President and CEO of Symphony Laboratories. He also held positions of Sales & Marketing VP at high tech start-up ULSI and senior architect at Intel.).

Wei Ing-Chou (Chairman and CEO of Tingyi Cayman Islands Holding Corp. It is the largest instant noodle producer and Taiwanese enterprise in China. It specializes in the production and distribution of instant noodles, beverages, baked goods and soft drinks with its brand name, Master Kong).

Eugene Wu (is a chairman and also one of 7 family members on board of Shin Kong Financial Holding (SKFH). With family, owns 30% stake in SKFH. The holding company offers an array of banking and financial services through subsidiaries Shin Kong Life Insurance (SKL), Shin Kong Investment Trust (SKIT), Taiwan Shin Kong Insurance Brokers (SKIB), and Taiwan Shin Kong Commercial Bank (SKB).).

Lin Yu-Lin (Chairman of property developer Hung Tai Group. Hung Tai Group is a holding company for the three subsiduries: Hung Tai Plastic Products Ltd., Goldrich Industries Ltd., Honor globe intenational Ltd. He is the brother of Lin Rong San. ).

Chao Teng-Hsiung (heads Farglory Land Development. Group now builds mostly residential buildings in Taipei and its surrounding suburbs.).

Barry Lam (Chairman & CEO, Quanta Computer the leading laptop producer worldwide. He is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education.).

Douglas Hsu (Head of Far Eastern Group. It is a Taiwanese conglomerate that was founded in China in 1937, is one of the biggest conglomerate in Taiwan.).

Shi Wen-long (is a Taiwanese businessman and the founder of Chi Mei Corporation, the largest maker of ABS resin in the world. Shi is an amateur performing concert violinist. He founded the Chi Mei Museum, in which he collects several valuable string instruments made by Antonio Stradivari or Guarneri del Gesù.).

Tsai Ming-Kai (Chairman of MediaTek Inc. (MTK). Is a fabless semiconductor company, designing and selling components for wireless communication, optical storage, GPS, high-definition digital TV and DVD products.).

Jason Chang (Founder of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering. It’s one of the world’s largest semiconductor testing and packaging companies.).

Leslie Koo (His focus is on Taiwan Cement, one of Asia’s largest cement producers. Established in 1946, Taiwan Cement is the leading company of TCC Group His Uncle is Jeffrey Koo. The younger Koo has an accounting degree from the University of Washington, M.B.A. from Wharton.).

Chang Yung-fa (is the founder and Group Chairman of the Evergreen Group. It  is the organizational designation used by a Taiwan-based conglomerate of shipping, transportation, and associated service companies.).

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