Hau Lung-pin

Hau Lung-pin's career is one of the more intriguing pivots I've come across. Born in Taipei in 1952 and trained at National Taiwan University, he was a chemist before turning to politics, eventually serving as Mayor of Taipei. I have a soft spot for technically minded people who move into public life, because they tend to reason from evidence rather than slogans. His time leading environmental policy hints at that same data-driven instinct. Beyond the inevitable political theatre, I'd genuinely like to study how a scientist's discipline shaped his approach to governing a major Asian capital.

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Name (English)

Hau Lung-pin

Name (Japanese)

郝龍斌

Reading

かく・りゅうひん

Born

August 22, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Taipei, Taiwan

Occupation

politician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

High school

Taipei Municipal Chenggong High School

University

National Taiwan University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hau%20Lung-pin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%9D%E9%BE%8D%E6%96%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709307

Tags

• politician

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.