List of founders from Asia
Name | Description | Birthdate | Birthplace | ||
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Indian chess grandmaster and a five-time world chess champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of 2800, a feat he first achieved in 2006. | December 11, 1969 | ||||
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. | April 13, 1963 | ||||
General secretary of the Communist consignment of the Soviet Union. | December 9, 1879 | ||||
First muslim caliph | October 29, 573 | ||||
Naval Ravikant is an angel investor, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and cofounder of AngelList and the founder of several other technology companies such as Epinions, Vast.com, MetaStable, The Hit Forge, and Genoa Corp. | November 5, 1974 | ||||
Confucius has been characterized as a teacher, advisor, editor, philosopher, reformer, and prophet, who is considered to have founded the school of philosophy that shares his name, Confucian. | 551 | ||||
founder of WSO2, born in India | June 1995 | ||||
founder of UJET, based in California, born in Vietnam | |||||
American publisher | April 3, 1898 | ||||
Ukrainian heavyweight professional boxer (Kyiv mayor) | July 19, 1971 | ||||
Changpeng Zhao is an entrepreneur who works in the blockchain industry. | September 10, 1977 | ||||
Lisa Su is chair and chief executive officer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). | November 1, 1969 | ||||
Richard Liu is an investor and entrepreneur. | 1974 | ||||
Soichiro Honda was a mechanic and entrepreneur. He cofounded the automobile brand Honda. | November 17, 1906 | ||||
founder of Kda Inc., born in China | |||||
Founder & CEO of BlueberryUltra | August 1, 2004 | ||||
Hong kong actor and singer | September 27, 1961 | ||||
Ukrainian blogger, actor, politician | August 3, 1975 | ||||
Shervin Pishevar is an Iranian-American investor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. | March 24, 1974 | ||||
Kim Tae-hyung (Korean: 김태형; born December 30, 1995),[1] also known by his stage name V, is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He is a vocalist of the South Korean boy band BTS.[2] | December 30, 1995 | ||||
Timur Bemambetov is a Russian-Kazakh director, producer, and screenwriter, as well as a tech entrepreneur. | June 25, 1961 | ||||
Rapper, music producer | June 3, 1990 | ||||
Adam Neumann is an Israeli entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of WeWork. | April 25, 1979 | ||||
American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, inventor, technologist, and CEO. | July 25, 1962 | ||||
Famous As: Actress | June 9, 1981 |
