:Kenneth Fung

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| name = Sir Kenneth Fung

| native_name = {{nobold|馮秉芬}}

| native_name_lang = zh-tw

| honorific-suffix = CBE, KStJ, LLD, DSocSc, JP

| office = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

| term_start = 28 May 1962

| term_end = 30 June 1972

| predecessor = Chau Sik-nin

| successor = Chung Sze-yuen

| appointed = Sir Robert Black
Sir David Trench

| office1 = Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

| term_start1 = 8 July 1959

| term_end1 = 23 June 1965

| predecessor1 =

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| appointed1 = Sir Robert Black
Sir David Trench

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|5|28}}

| birth_place = British Hong Kong

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2002|5|16|1911|5|28}}

| death_place = Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, Happy Valley, Hong Kong

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| occupation = Businessman, politician, philanthropist

| alma_mater = University of Hong Kong

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| spouse = Lady Ivy Fung Kan Shiu-han, OBE

| children = Fung Hing-lun, Lawrence
Dr. Fung Hing-biu, Robert
Fung Hing-cheung, Kenneth, BBS
Fung Hing-chiu, Cyril
Fung Chi-yee, Angela (Bender)

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Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan, CBE, KStJ, LLD, DSocSc, JP ({{zh-t|馮秉芬}}; 28 May 1911 – 16 May 2002) was a prominent Hong Kong politician and businessman.

Biography

Fung was born on 28 May 1911 to Fung Ping-shan,{{cite book |last1=Fung |first1=Cornelia Lichauco |last2=Wan |first2=Yiu Cheun |title=Fung Ping Shan: The Man, His Life and His Library |date=1 January 2012 |publisher=The Commercial Press {HK} Ltd. |location=Hong Kong |isbn=978-9620744761 |pages=229 |edition=1st }} a co-founder of the Bank of East Asia,{{cite news|title=K. Fung Ping-fan, 92; Brought McDonald's to Hong Kong|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-20-me-passings20.1-story.html|date=20 May 2002|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} with his twin brother Fung Ping-wah. He graduated from School of Chinese Studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1931.{{cite book|page=65|title=Growing with Hong Kong: The University and Its Graduates : the First 90 Years|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|year=2002}}

He took up his family business after his father's death in 1931, becoming the general manager and the director of his family business, the Bank of East Asia. At 28 Fung also established the Fung Ping Fan Group, which in 1975 bought a McDonald's franchise and introduced the fast-food chain to what was then the British colony of Hong Kong. He co-founded the Ocean Park Hong Kong and was a founding chairman of the park.

From 1951 to 1960 he was the appointed unofficial member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1959, in which he served until 1965. From 1962 to 1972 he was the unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. For his public services in Hong Kong, Fung was knighted in 1971.

Fung was the founder and president of Hong Kong's World Wide Fund for Nature and was district governor of Rotary International. He was among the first members of the Photographic Society of Hong Kong when it was formed in 1937.{{cite news|title=SIR KENNETH FUNG PING-FAN DIES AT 92|date=19 May 2002|newspaper=Associated Press|url=https://apnews.com/47589907cc3195b8c1f749903d6733ef}} He was involved closely in the work of the Scout movement and of the Y.M.C.A. He is a past commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and was the first chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme in Hong Kong. He became a member of the Court of the University of Hong Kong in 1948. In 1969 he was given an honorary degree of doctor of social sciences.{{cite news|url=http://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/index.php/archive/citation_detail/235|title=The Hon Sir Kenneth FUNG Ping Fan|work=The University of Hong Kong}} In 1973 he received the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award.{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}

Fung died on 16 May 2002 at the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, aged 92. He married Ivy Kan Shiu-han and was survived by his four sons and one daughter.