# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howqua
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:02:03.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howqua"
name: "Howqua"
slug: "howqua"
description: "Wu Bingjian, trading as \"Houqua\" and better known in the West as \"Howqua\" or \"Howqua II\", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world."
tagline: "Chinese businessman (1769-1843)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hou_Qua_(Howqua%2C_Wu_Bingjian)_-_50.3792_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1769"
deathDate: "1843-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.59309866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "伍秉鑑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B8%D6%84%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A1"
    title: "Հոքուա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8D%E7%A7%89%E9%91%91"
    title: "伍秉鑑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EB%B3%91%EA%B0%90"
    title: "오병감"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Bingjian"
    title: "Wu Bingjian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B0"
    title: "Хокуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howqua"
    title: "Howqua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C5%A9_B%E1%BB%89nh_Gi%C3%A1m"
    title: "Ngũ Bỉnh Giám"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B3%CD%98_P%C3%A9ng-k%C3%A0m"
    title: "Ngó͘ Péng-kàm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8D%E7%A7%89%E9%91%91"
    title: "伍秉鑑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1391990"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump