Lim Ho Puah

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1841|12|30}}

| birth_place = Amoy, {{flagicon|Qing dynasty}} Qing empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1914|02|11|1841|12|30}}

| death_place = Singapore, {{flag|Straits Settlements}}

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Lim Ho Puah ({{zh|t=林和阪|s=林和坂|p=Lín Hébǎn|poj=Lîm Hô-póaⁿ }}) was a Hokkien merchant who was born in Amoy on 30 December{{Cite web|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19071230-1.2.46?ST=1&AT=search&k=Lim%20ho%20puah&QT=lim,ho,puah&oref=article|title=Untitled|website=eresources.nlb.gov.sg|access-date=9 September 2019}} 1841, and came to Singapore at an early age. He was employed by Wee Bin & Co., where his abilities were noticed by his employer, Wee Bin. He later married Wee Bin's daughter. He was the founder and senior partner of the Wee Bin Steamship Line and other concerns.{{Cite book|title=Seaports of the Far East illustrated : historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial, facts, figures, & resources|last=Macmillan|first=Allister|publisher=Allister Macmillan|year=1907|location=London|pages=441–442|oclc=12269431}}

Lim became the sole surviving partner in the firm of Wee Bin & Co. when Wee Bin's grandson Wee Siang Tat ({{zh|t=黃祥達|s=|poj=Ûiⁿ Siâng-ta̍t|p=Huáng Xiáng Dá}}) died.{{Cite book|title=One hundred years' history of the Chinese in Singapore|last=Song|first=Ong Siang|publisher=John Murray|year=1923|location=London|pages=114–116|lccn=24007821|oclc=969780955}} The company was liquidated in 1911, when the greater part of the firm's business, including all the large steamships, was taken over by his son Lim Peng Siang ({{zh|t=林秉祥|s=林秉祥|poj=Lîm Péng-siông|p=Lín Bǐng Xiáng}}).

Lim was a Director of Tan Kim Ching's Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, served as a member of the Chinese Advisory Board and on the Committee of the Po Leung Kuk, and was made a Justice of the Peace. He died on 11 February 1914 at the age of 74.{{Cite web|title=The Late Mr. Lim Ho Puah.|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19140213-1.2.70|access-date=7 February 2022|website=eresources.nlb.gov.sg|language=en-SG}} His remains were interred in China.