Born: 1847, China (Hong Kong)
Died: 1937
Country most active: International
Also known as: 何妙龄
Philanthropist Ho Miu-ling was born into an influential British Hong Kong who married at 17. She would go on to serve as her husband’s political hostess in the United States, England, Peru, Mexico, Spain, Cuba, and Japan during his tenure as a Minister of Imperial China from 1896 to 1910 and then as a government minister in China from 1910 to 1922. Returning to Hong Kong after being widowed in 1922, she returned to Hong Kong and donated large sums to various charities, including scholarships and building funds for churches. Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906 with funding provided by her, and would later merge with two other hospitals to become the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, named for her and for her sister-in-law, Alice Walkden.