Sir Eleazer "Elly" Silas Kadoorie KBE (1867 – February 8, 1944) was a Baghdadi-born Jewish businessman and philanthropist active in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Elly Kadoorie arrived in Shanghai from Bombay in 1880 as an employee of the Baghdadi Jewish firm David Sassoon & Sons.
[1] Within a few years he had accumulated large sums of money and had gone into business on his own account, with companies in both Shanghai and Hong Kong.
[2] Over the next two decades, the Kadoorie brothers made their fortunes, achieving success in banking, rubber plantations, electric power utilities and real estate and gaining a major shareholding in Hong Kong Hotels Limited.
[3] Kadoorie was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1926 Birthday Honours.