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Wei Qing
Wei Qing (卫青) was a Han dynasty general who led seven campaigns against the Xiongnu between 129 and 119 BC, rising from servile birth to Grand Marshal.
Wei Qiuyue
Wei Qiuyue (魏秋月), born 1988 in Tianjin, is a Chinese retired volleyball setter who captained China and won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, bronze at Beijing 2008, and the 2015 World Cup; not the researcher Qiuyue Wu.
Wei Ran
Wei Ran (魏冉), titled Marquis of Rang, was a chancellor and general of Qin in the Warring States period who installed King Zhao and promoted Bai Qi.
Wei Ran (Ranghou) faction
The Wei Ran (Ranghou) faction (穰侯魏冉集團) was the kin-based group that dominated Qin in the first half of King Zhaoxiang's reign, built around the chancellor Wei Ran, Marquis Rang.
Wei regime of Li Mi
The Wei regime of Li Mi (李密魏公政权) was a rebel government proclaimed in February 617, when Sui rebel leader Li Mi was enthroned as Duke of Wei at Luokou.
Wei Shou
Wei Shou (魏收) was a Chinese historian and official who served the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, and Northern Qi courts and compiled the 130-chapter Book of Wei.
Wei Shu
Wei Shu (韦述) was a Tang dynasty historian, bibliographer, and official who spent twenty years in the historiographical office and completed a national history of the Tang, dying in exile in 757.
Wei stele
Wei stele (魏碑), also called Northern steles, is the stone-inscription calligraphy of China's Northern Wei dynasty and its successors, marking the transition from clerical to regular script.
Wei Sun Christianson
Wei Sun Christianson (孙玮) is a Chinese-born investment banker who led Morgan Stanley China from 2006 to 2022 and advised on China's landmark share listings.
Wei Tao
Wei Tao (陶伟) is a Chinese-born biomedical engineer and nanomedicine researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for mRNA drug delivery.
Wei Wang (chemist)
Wei Wang (王卫) is an organic and medicinal chemist known for organocatalysis and photocatalytic H/D exchange deuteration, a professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo.
Wei Xi
Wei Xi (魏禧, 1624–1680 or 1681) was a Chinese essayist who refused to serve the Qing and ranked among the three great prose masters of the early Qing.
Wei Xian
Wei Xian (韦贤) was a Confucian scholar and chancellor of China's Western Han dynasty who taught Emperor Zhao the Book of Songs and became the first Han chancellor to retire.
Wei Xiangxin
Wei Xiangxin (魏祥鑫), born 2008 in Meizhou, Guangdong, is a Chinese forward who starred for Meizhou Hakka, became the CSL's second-youngest scorer, and joined AJ Auxerre in 2026 on a five-year deal, number 49.
Wei Xiao
Wei Xiao (隗嚣), courtesy name Jimeng, was a Han-dynasty warlord from Tianshui who rose during Wang Mang's collapse and held the Long region until Emperor Guangwu broke him.
Wei Xiaokuan
Wei Xiaokuan (韦孝宽, 509–580) was a general and statesman of the Northern Zhou dynasty, best known for commanding the army that destroyed Yuchi Jiong's rebellion in 580.
Wei Xing Zheng
Wei Xing Zheng (郑卫新) is a control and systems engineer, a University Distinguished Professor at Western Sydney University in Australia since 1994, and a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC.
Wei Xiong (economist)
Wei Xiong is a financial economist who is John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance at Princeton University, known for work on behavioral finance, speculative bubbles, and China's financial system.
Wei Xiong (physicist)
Wei Xiong (熊伟) is a physical chemist and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for establishing the experimental foundations of polariton chemistry.
Wei Yan
Wei Yan (魏延), courtesy name Wenchang, was a general of Shu Han under Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, known for his bravery and feud with Yang Yi.
Wei Yang (molecular biologist)
Wei Yang (杨薇) is a Chinese-born American structural biologist at NIH known for crystal structures of DNA repair proteins, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Wei Ying-chung
Wei Ying-chung (魏应充) is a Taiwanese food-industry executive, third of the four Wei brothers who built Ting Hsin and Master Kong, and was convicted in the 2014 cooking-oil scandal.
Wei Ying-hsing
Wei Ying-hsing (魏应行, also romanised Wei Yin-heng) is a Taiwanese billionaire, fourth of the four Wei brothers behind Master Kong, who runs Ting Hsin's Dicos and FamilyMart China chains.
Wei Yingwu
Wei Yingwu (韦应物, c. 737 – c. 791), known as Wei Suzhou, was a Tang dynasty official and poet famed for tranquil landscape and pastoral verse.
Wei You
Wei You (尤伟) is a chemist and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working on organic solar cells and 2D perovskites.
Wei Yu
Wei Yu is a Canadian electrical engineer and professor at the University of Toronto whose DSL optimization algorithms run in over 100 million telephone lines worldwide.
Wei Yuan
Wei Yuan (魏源, 1794–1856) was a Qing dynasty scholar and official from Hunan, best known for compiling the Haiguo tuzhi, an influential geography of the world.
Wei Yuanzhong
Wei Yuanzhong (魏元忠) was a Tang dynasty statesman and general who served three rulers, Emperor Gaozong, Empress Wu Zetian, and Emperor Zhongzong, and twice headed the government as chancellor.
Wei Yue
Wei Yue (韦说, died 927) was a Chinese official who served as chancellor under Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, then was demoted, exiled, and ordered to take his own life under Emperor Mingzong.
Wei Zaode
Wei Zaode (魏藻德, 1605 to 1644) was a Ming dynasty grand secretary who rose from first place in the 1640 palace examination to chief grand secretary, then died under rebel torture.