page_title: Gordon Wu
section_title: Trivia
hierarchical_section_title: Gordon Wu / Trivia
caption_attribution_description: Entrance to Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton University
context_page_description: Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung, GBS, KCMG, FICE is a Hong Kong businessman. He is the chairman of the board of Hong Kong-listed Asian infrastructure firm Hopewell Holdings Ltd.
context_section_description: The world's most expensive truffle, a 1.51 kilogram rare White Alba truffle, was sold for €125,000 (Hong Kong Dollar $1,250,000; US$160,000) on 13 November 2006 to Gordon Wu, who planned a charity dinner party at Toscana Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong. This price beats the previous world record of €95,000 for a 1.21 kilogram White Alba truffle in 2005.
  The dining hall of Princeton University's Butler residential college, built in 1983, is named for Wu. In 1995, Wu pledged a gift of US$100 million to Princeton, US$40 million of that earmarked for graduate fellowships.
  The Science and Mathematics Center at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, is named for Sir Gordon Wu's wife, Lady Ivy Kwok Wu.
  The Wah Yan College Cats rescue project is an animal shelter on the roof of Gordon Wu Hall, Wah Yan College, Hong Kong.
caption: Gordon Wu Hall at Princeton University
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