# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peggy-cherng
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:50:03.338Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peggy-cherng"
name: "Peggy Cherng"
slug: "peggy-cherng"
description: "Peggy Tsiang Cherng is an American businesswoman and computer scientist who co-founded Panda Express in 1983 and is the co-chief executive officer of Panda Restaurant Group. With an estimated net worth of US$3.7 billion as of October 2024, Forbes reported that she is America's second richest self-made woman born outside the US and one of the 400 wealthiest individuals in the world. The Cherngs invest their wealth out of their family office, the Cherng Family Trust."
tagline: "Billionaire and business woman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peggy_Cherng.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.35
  momentum:             0.6328623959744533
  historical:           7.664450666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 77
sources:
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "بيجى تشيرنج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cherng"
    title: "Peggy Cherng"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%92%8B%E4%BD%A9%E7%90%AA"
    title: "蒋佩琪"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52581231"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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