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Wu Jianren
Wu Jianren (吴趼人), original name Wu Woyao, was a Qing dynasty novelist and Shanghai newspaper writer, best known for the novel Twenty Years of Strange Events Witnessed, serialized from 1903.
Wu Jie
Wu Jie (吴玠), courtesy name Jinqing, was a Song dynasty general who defended Sichuan against the Jin for a decade, winning the battles of Shangyuan and Xianren Pass.
Wu Jihan
Wu Jihan (吴忌寒) is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Bitmain in 2013, built it into the world's largest bitcoin mining chip maker, and now leads Bitdeer.
Wu Jing (吴京) (actor)
Wu Jing is a Chinese martial artist, actor, and director born in 1974. He is known for the blockbuster film Wolf Warrior 2 and the The Wandering Earth franchise.
Wu Jingyu
Wu Jingyu (吴静钰), born 1987 in Jingdezhen, China, is a taekwondo athlete, double Olympic flyweight (−49 kg) champion at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, two-time world champion, and later Chinese Taekwondo Association vice president.
Wu Jingzi
Wu Jingzi (吴敬梓, 1701–1754) was a Qing-dynasty writer and scholar from Quanjiao, Anhui, known as the author of the satirical novel Rulin Waishi (The Scholars).
Wu Jinyan
Wu Jinyan (呉謹言, born 1990, Dujiangyan, Sichuan) is a Chinese actress and former ballet dancer, famous as Wei Yingluo (魏璎珞) in Story of Yanxi Palace (2018), later in The Double, Kill Me Love Me, and ORIGIN.
Wu Jishan
Wu Jishan (吴继善) is an organic materials chemist at the National University of Singapore, known for open-shell diradicaloids, nanographenes, and three-dimensional aromaticity, and a 2026 President's Science Award recipient.
Wu Kedu
Wu Kedu (吴可读) was a Qing dynasty official from Gansu who died by suicide in 1879 to force the court to settle the Tongzhi Emperor's succession.
Wu Kegang
Wu Kegang (武克刚, born 1952 in Hangzhou) is a Hong Kong-based Chinese entrepreneur who founded Tongheng Group in 1992 and created the Yunnan Red wine brand.
Wu Lei (武磊)
Wu Lei (武磊), born 1991, is a Chinese forward for Shanghai Port and China. All-time CSL top scorer (151 goals), Espanyol 2019–2022, first Chinese scorer in La Liga and UEFA group stage.
Wu Li
Wu Li (吴历, 1632–1718) was a Chinese landscape painter and Catholic priest of the Qing dynasty, one of the six great masters of early Qing painting.
Wu Liangfu
Wu Liangfu (吳良輔) was a eunuch of the early Qing court who advised founding the Thirteen Yamen; he was executed in 1661 and the yamen were abolished.
Wu Lie
Wu Lie (吴猎, 1143–1213) was a Song dynasty official and Hunan school scholar who organized the defense of the middle Yangtze and served as Sichuan's chief military commissioner.
Wu Lien-teh (伍连德)
Wu Lien-teh (伍连德, 1879–1960), Penang-born Cambridge physician, led the 1910–11 Manchurian pneumonic plague response, invented the Wu mask precursor to the N95, founded China's modern public health system, and was nominated for the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Wu Lin
Wu Lin (吴璘, 1102–1167) was a Song dynasty general who, succeeding his elder brother Wu Jie, defended Sichuan against the Jin for over twenty years.
Wu Ling Chun
Wu Ling Chun (武陵春) is a famous ci poem by Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, written in 1135, known for its closing image of sorrow too heavy for a boat.
Wu Maw-kuen
Wu Maw-kuen (吴茂昆), born 1949 in Hualien, is a Taiwanese condensed-matter physicist at Academia Sinica whose lab reported superconductivity at 93 K in YBCO in 1987, the first above liquid nitrogen's boiling point.
Wu Ming-yi
Wu Ming-yi (吳明益, born 1971) is a Taiwanese novelist, essayist, and professor at National Dong Hwa University, known for The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle.
Wu Minxia
Wu Minxia (吴敏霞), Chinese diver born 1985 in Shanghai, five-time Olympic champion on 3 m springboard; most decorated female Olympic diver with 7 medals (2004–2016), plus 14 World Championship medals.
Wu Peifu
Wu Peifu (吴佩孚, 1874–1939) was a Chinese warlord of the Republic of China who, with his Zhili faction, controlled the Beijing government from 1922 to 1924.
Wu Qi
Wu Qi (吴起) was a Warring States period military commander and statesman who served Lu, Wei, and Chu as chancellor, directing reforms before being killed by nobles.
Wu Qi's defense of Hexi against Qin
Wu Qi's defense of Hexi against Qin (吴起守西河) was the Warring States general Wu Qi's governorship of Xihe for Wei, which kept Qin's army from advancing east.
Wu Qi's reforms in Chu
Wu Qi's reforms in Chu (吴起变法) were military and administrative reforms by Wu Qi under King Dao of Chu, ending with Wu Qi's death in 381 BC.
Wu Rui
Wu Rui (吴芮) was a Qin-dynasty magistrate of Fanyang who became King of Hengshan and founded the only non-imperial kingship of the early Han to last five generations.
Wu Rulun
Wu Rulun (吴汝纶) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official and master of Tongcheng classical prose who served Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang and headed Lianchi Academy in Baoding.
Wu Sangui
Wu Sangui (吴三桂, 1612–1678) was a Ming general who admitted Qing forces through Shanhaiguan in 1644 against Li Zicheng, then ruled Yunnan and Guizhou as the Pingxi Prince until his 1673 rebellion.
Wu Sansi
Wu Sansi (武三思) was a Tang-dynasty commandery prince and chief minister, nephew of the empress ruler Wu Zetian and dominant courtier under Emperor Zhongzong, killed in 707.
Wu School
The Wu School (吴门画派, Wumen School) was a school of Chinese literati painting centered in Suzhou, active from the mid to late Ming dynasty and led by Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming.
Wu Shangzhi
Wu Shangzhi (吴尚志, also Peter Wu) is a Chinese private equity investor who co-founded and chairs CDH Investments, which he spun off from CICC in 2002.