# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-mulan-chu-chao
# Generated: 2026-08-16T02:18:30.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-mulan-chu-chao"
name: "Ruth Mulan Chu Chao"
slug: "ruth-mulan-chu-chao"
description: "Ruth Mulan Chu Chao was the matriarch of a Chinese-American family successful in shipping. In 2016, Harvard Business School dedicated the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center in her honor, making it the first building at the business school named for a woman and an Asian American. Four of Chao's six daughters attended the business school, including former United States Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao and former Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao."
tagline: "Chinese American philanthropist (1930–2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/RuthMulanChuChao.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-03-19"
deathDate: "2007-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.26
  momentum:             16.03700097370983
  historical:           3.148278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Mulan_Chu_Chao"
    title: "Ruth Mulan Chu Chao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8B"
    title: "రూత్ ములాన్ చు చావో"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%B5%E6%9C%B1%E6%9C%A8%E5%85%B0"
    title: "赵朱木兰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24702487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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