Tsai Wan-lin

He founded the Lin Yuan Group, a large banking and insurance group.

He was born into a poor farmer's family in Chikunan Town, Chikunan District, Shinchiku Prefecture, Japanese-era Taiwan (modern-day Zhunan, Miaoli County). Tsai started out in Taipei by selling vegetables and soybeans with his brothers as a child.

With one of his brothers Tsai joined Taipei's Tenth Credit Cooperative in 1960. Two years later, they founded Cathay Life Insurance, which at the time of his death was the largest life insurance company in Taiwan. Tenth Credit Cooperative was eventually transferred to Tsai Wan-lin's nephew Tsai Chen-chou.

The family split Cathay Life Insurance in 1979. Tsai Wan-lin took control of Cathay Life Insurance with his brother Tsai Wan-tsai taking ownership of the non-life insurance business that he then renamed to Fubon Insurance in 1992.. Tsai Wan-lin founded the Lin Yuan Group with his share. Over the next 10 years, the Lin Yuan Group expanded to become the largest Taiwanese conglomerate. Cathay Financial Holdings, a division of the Lin Yuan Group, became Taiwan's largest financial holding company.