Theodore Yip (Chinese: 葉德利; pinyin: Yè Délì; Jyutping: jip6 dak1 lei6) was an Indonesian-Dutch businessman and a former Formula One team owner of Theodore Racing in the 1970s. He was a polyglot.

Early life and business career

Yip spoke many languages including six Chinese variants (most notably Hakka, it being his native tongue, and Mandarin and Cantonese due to his residence in Hong Kong and Macau), Dutch (through his life experience during Dutch colonial rule and his Dutch citizenship), English, French, German, Malay (inasmuch as he was born and spent his childhood in Indonesia prior his move to the Netherlands for his studies), and Thai (which helped him expand his businesses into property and finance).^[1]

Family

In January 2019, Yip's adopted son, Willy, died in a Hong Kong hospital from injuries he had received in a school bus crash in the previous month.^[2]