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Wei Boyang
Wei Boyang (魏伯阳) is the Chinese alchemist of Shangyu, Zhejiang, to whom tradition attributes the Cantong qi, the earliest systematic work on alchemy; nothing historical is known about him.
Wei Cai (蔡伟)
Wei Cai (蔡伟) is a Chinese venture capital investor who joined Lightspeed China Partners as a Partner in October 2021, investing in hard tech, green tech, and medtech.
Wei cedes Anyi to Qin
Wei cedes Anyi to Qin (魏献安邑) was the 286 BC transfer of the city of Anyi from the state of Wei to Qin, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian.
Wei Changhui
Wei Changhui (韦昌辉, 1826–1856) was a leader of the Taiping Rebellion who held the title of North King under Hong Xiuquan and directed the defense of the capital Tianjing.
Wei Chen
Wei Chen is a mechanical engineer at Northwestern University who chairs its mechanical engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Wei clan of Jin
The Wei clan of Jin (魏氏) was a ministerial lineage of the Spring and Autumn period state of Jin, founded by Bi Wan and named for his fief of Wei.
Wei Code
The Wei Code (魏律), also called the New Code, was the penal code of Cao Wei, compiled under Emperor Ming and completed in eighteen chapters around 229.
Wei Dazhong
Wei Dazhong (魏大中, 1575–1625) was a Ming dynasty censorial official from Jiashan who rose through the scrutiny offices and died in prison in 1625 under the eunuch Wei Zhongxian's persecution of the Donglin faction.
Wei Dongyi
Wei Dongyi (韦东奕), born 1991 or 1992, is a Chinese mathematician at Peking University known for work on the Navier–Stokes equations and two full-mark IMO gold medals.
Wei Gao
Wei Gao (高伟) is a medical engineer and Caltech professor known for wearable biosensors that analyze sweat, including a 2016 Nature sweat-analysis platform and a 2024 hormone-monitoring patch.
Wei Gu
Wei Gu is a molecular biologist and Columbia University professor who showed that acetylation switches on p53's DNA-binding activity and traced how p53 suppresses tumors through ferroptosis.
Wei Guan
Wei Guan (卫瓘), courtesy name Boyu, was a Chinese statesman and general of Wei and Western Jin who conquered Shu and crushed Zhong Hui's rebellion.
Wei Guangtao
Wei Guangtao (魏光焘) was a Qing dynasty provincial official and Hunan army commander, born in 1837 in Shaoyang, Hunan, who served as governor-general of several provinces.
Wei Guo
Wei Guo is a cell and cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose lab studies the exocyst and tumor-derived extracellular vesicles, including exosomal PD-L1 in immunosuppression.
Wei Ho-te
Wei Ho-te (魏和德, 1921–1980) was a Taiwanese businessman from Changhua County who founded an oil factory in 1958 that grew into Ting Hsin International Group, maker of Master Kong instant noodles.
Wei Ing-Chou
Wei Ing-Chou, also known as Wei Yingzhou (魏应州), is a Taiwanese businessman who founded Tingyi with his three brothers in 1991 and built Master Kong into China's leading instant-noodle brand.
Wei Jianjun
Wei Jianjun (魏建军), known internationally as Jack Wey, is a Chinese automotive executive who built Great Wall Motor in Baoding into a multinational SUV and pickup maker, chairing it since 2001.
Wei Li
Wei Li is the name of two American scientists who each won a PECASE award: a University of Washington engineer in 2004 and a Rice University physicist in 2014.
Wei Li Tan
Wei Li Tan is a Singapore-trained physician turned venture capitalist, formerly a partner at GSR Ventures and, since March 2025, a partner at Informed Ventures investing in digital health.
Wei Liaoweng
Wei Liaoweng (魏了翁), courtesy name Huafu and studio name Heshan, was a Song dynasty statesman, educator, and classical scholar who served Emperors Ningzong and Lizong.
Wei Liaozi
The Wei Liaozi (尉繚子) is a Chinese military classic of the late Warring States period, one of the Seven Military Classics, emphasizing military law and institutions.
Wei Lihua
Wei Lihua (魏立华) is the founder, chairperson, and controlling shareholder of Junlebao Dairy Group, which he started in Shijiazhuang in 1995 and built into China's third-largest integrated dairy company.
Wei Lihuang
Wei Lihuang (卫立煌) was a general of the Republic of China who commanded the Chinese Expeditionary Force and later served in the People's Republic of China.
Wei Lin Leong
Wei Lin Leong (Leong Wei Lin) is a materials scientist and associate professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for research on organic electrochemical transistors and soft electronics.
Wei Liu (pharmacologist)
Wei Liu is an organic and organometallic chemist and associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, known for copper-catalyzed difluoromethylation of alkyl halides and PET radiotrifluoromethylation.
Wei Lu (engineer, University of Michigan)
Wei Lu is an electrical engineer and James R. Mellor Professor at the University of Michigan, known for memristor research and co-founding Crossbar Inc and MemryX.
Wei Min
Wei Min, also known as Min Wei, is a chemist and Professor at Columbia University known for co-inventing stimulated Raman scattering microscopy for imaging molecules in living cells.
Wei Neng
Wei Neng (魏能) was a Northern Song frontier general, born in Yun, who rose from enlisted soldier to border commander against the Khitan on the Hebei frontier.
Wei Pan
Wei Pan is a condensed-matter experimental physicist, a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories known for experiments on the fractional quantum Hall effect and topological states.
Wei princely fiefs (Cao enfeoffments)
Wei princely fiefs (魏宗室封国) were domains granted to members of the imperial Cao clan during the Wei dynasty, a system begun under Cao Cao as Duke of Wei.