Kadoorie
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The Kadoorie family were originally Iraqi Jews from Baghdad who in the mid-eigtheenth century migrated to Bombay (Mumbai), India and later to Hong Kong and Shanghai, China.
It includes a number of notable individuals:
- Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie (KBE (1899-1993) in Hong Kong) was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist.
- Sir Horace Kadoorie
- Sir Michael Kadoorie, a business executive, one of the world's foremost tycoons and philanthropists.