- Source of Wealth: Business (Quanta Computer)
- Birth Place: Shanghai, China
- Marital Status: Married (He Sha)
- Full Name: Barry Lam
- Nationality: Taiwanese
- Date of Birth: 1949
- Ethnicity: Chinese
- Occupation: Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer
- Education: National Taiwan University
- Children: 2 (Sam and Yu-Hsuan)
Barry Lam has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion. Considered as one of the richest billionaires in Taiwan, Barry Lam is also known as a great patron of the arts and generous philanthropist. His successful career started when he, together with former classmates, founded the Kinpo company, which specializes on manufacturing handheld calculators, in 1973. In the late 1980s, he realized that notebook computers would be the next hit product in the market. It triggered him to left Kinpo in 1988 and founded the Quanta Computer. Today, Quanta Computer is one of the leading producers of laptops worldwide.
Barry Lam actually possesses brilliant innovative thinking, entrepreneurial skills and engineering talent which enabled him to turn Quanta Computer into one of the most successful tech companies in the globe like it is today. The company produces and manufacture PC notebooks for world renowned clients including Apple, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, Compaq, Fujitsu, LG, Lenovo, Sharp Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Sony, Siemens AG, Casper, MPC, Maxdata, Gericom, and Alienware.