The Kadoorie family (Arabic: خضوري) are a wealthy family, originally Mizrahi Jews from Baghdad. From the mid-18th century they were established in Bombay India, becoming one of the wealthiest families in Asia, and later to British Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
It includes a number of notable individuals:
- Sir Ellis Kadoorie (1865–1922), philanthropist and businessman
- Sir Elly Kadoorie (1867–1944), philanthropist and businessman
- Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie (KBE (1899–1993) in Hong Kong) was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist.
- Sir Michael Kadoorie (b. 1941), a business executive, one of the world's foremost tycoons and philanthropists
- Sir Horace Kadoorie (1902–1995), industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
- Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie (KBE (1899–1993) in Hong Kong) was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist.
Enterprises founded by the family: CLP Group The Peninsula Hotels
Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Being so wrong about her makes me wonder now how often I am utterly wrong about myself. And how wrong she might have been about her mother, how wrong he might have been about his father, how much of family life is a vast web of misunderstandings, a tinted and touched-up family portrait, an accurate representation of fact that leaves out only the essential truth.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)