Kan Keng Tjong

Kang Keng Tjong (22 June, 1797—May 11, 1871), also spelt Kan Keng Tiong, was a Chinese-Indonesian tycoon and one of the richest men in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies (now known as Indonesia).

Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian, Qing Empire, he migrated to the East Indies in the early nineteenth century. He was raised by the Qing imperial government to the rank of mandarin of the third rank.

Kan's widow, Jo Heng Nio, was a niece of a Chinese officer, Jo Teng Kong, Luitenant-titulair der Chinezen; and many of Kan's children married into families of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry of colonial Indonesia.