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Momofuku Ando

1910 - 2007

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Momofuku Ando (Japanese: 安藤 百福, Hepburn: Andō Momofuku; March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007), born Go Pek-Hok (Chinese: 吳百福; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Pek-hok), was a Taiwanese-born Japanese inventor and businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. He is known as the inventor of Nissin Chikin Ramen (instant noodles) and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Momofuku Ando is the 99th most popular inventor (up from 100th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Inventor.

Momofuku Ando is most famous for inventing instant noodles in 1958.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Momofuku Ando ranks 99 out of 426. Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johann Maria Farina, Sakichi Toyoda, Leo Fender, Daniel Swarovski, and John Harrison. After him are Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Richard Arkwright, Elisha Otis, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Henry Bessemer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Momofuku Ando ranks 49. Before him are Luise Rainer, António de Spínola, Pierre Schaeffer, Ne Win, Erich Kempka, and Edvard Kardelj. After him are Robert van Gulik, Francisco Varallo, Tancredo Neves, Meša Selimović, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Said bin Taimur. Among people deceased in 2007, Momofuku Ando ranks 45. Before him are Richard Rorty, Stanley Miller, Jane Wyman, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Henri Troyat, and Arawa Kimura. After him are Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Abbé Pierre, John Backus, Oscar Peterson, Gaston Thorn, and Vladimir Kryuchkov.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Momofuku Ando ranks 6 out of 116. Before him are Teresa Teng (1953), Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Lee Teng-hui (1923), Ang Lee (1954), and Jensen Huang (1963). After him are Chen Shui-bian (1950), William Lai (1959), Yuan T. Lee (1936), Joan Lin (1953), Terry Gou (1950), and Jerry Yang (1968).

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Among INVENTORS In Taiwan

Among inventors born in Taiwan, Momofuku Ando ranks 1. 

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