Run Run Shaw

Run Run Shaw was a Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist and a key founder of the Shaw Brothers film company and Television Broadcasts Limited. According to a 2013 retrospective article in China Philanthropist magazine, when Hang Lung Group founder Chan Tseng-hsi died in 1986, his fortune had reached more than HK$4 billion, ranking ninth among Hong Kong’s top ten business groups that year, behind Lee Shau Kee and ahead of Run Run Shaw.

Run Run Shaw also took part in the public affairs of Hong Kong’s business community. The Better Hong Kong Foundation, established in 1995, was jointly initiated by 20 Hong Kong business figures, among them Run Run Shaw, Li Ka-shing, Cheng Yu-tung, Tsang Hin-chi and Ronnie C. Chan, each of whom contributed HK$5 million. Shaw College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong is named after him.