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Wang Youdun
Wang Youdun (汪由敦, 1692–1758) was a Qing dynasty civil official, calligrapher, and poet who rose to Associate Grand Secretary and Minister of Personnel under the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors.
Wang Yu (actor)
Wang Yu (王羽, Jimmy Wang Yu, born Wang Zhengquan, 1943–2022) was a Shanghai-born martial-arts film star of Hong Kong and Taiwan, famous for One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and The Chinese Boxer (1970); distinct from a 1955–2008 Shaw actor, a 1992-born mainland actor, and lawyer Wang Yu.
Wang Yu (Ming dynasty official)
Wang Yu (王忬) was a Ming dynasty official from Taicang who defended Tongzhou, fought the wokou, served as governor-general of Jiliao, and was executed in the Jiajing reign.
Wang Yu (Tang dynasty chancellor)
Wang Yu (王玙) was a Tang dynasty ritual official and chancellor who rose under emperors Xuanzong and Suzong by organizing state sacrifices, and died in 768.
Wang Yuan
Wang Yuan (王渊) was a Song dynasty general who rose from recruited archer to high office under Emperor Gaozong, killed in the 1129 Ming shou mutiny.
Wang Yuanji
Wang Yuanji (王元姬, 217–268) was a Western Jin empress dowager, wife of Sima Zhao and mother of the founding emperor Sima Yan, honored as Empress Wenming.
Wang Yuanqi
Wang Yuanqi (王原祁, 1642–1715) was a Qing dynasty official and landscape painter from Taicang, Jiangsu, ranked among the Six Great Masters of early Qing painting.
Wang Yucheng
Wang Yucheng (王禹偁, 954–1001) was a Northern Song statesman and writer who rose from a farming family to Hanlin Academician and was demoted three times for blunt speech.
Wang Yun
Wang Yun (王云, courtesy name Zifei) was a Song dynasty civil official and diplomat, envoy to the Jin armies, killed by a mob at Cizhou in 1126.
Wang Yun (Han dynasty official)
Wang Yun (王允), courtesy name Zishi, was a Han dynasty official from Taiyuan who plotted the assassination of the warlord Dong Zhuo at Chang'an in 192 and was killed months later.
Wang Yun'an
Wang Yun'an (王云安), born in 1986, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Good me tea chain in 2010 and chairs Guming Holdings, listed in Hong Kong in 2025.
Wang Yung-ching
Wang Yung-ching, also romanized Wang Yongqing and known as Y.C. Wang (王永庆), was a Taiwanese businessman who founded Formosa Plastics Corporation in 1954 and built it into one of Asia's largest petrochemical manufacturers.
Wang Yung-tsai
Wang Yung-tsai (王永在) was a Taiwanese industrialist who co-founded Formosa Plastics Group with his elder brother Wang Yung-ching in 1954 and directed its Mailiao sixth naphtha cracker.
Wang Zebang
Wang Zebang (王泽邦), also known as Wang Laoji, was a Qing-dynasty herbal-tea maker in Guangzhou who founded the Wanglaoji herbal-tea business in 1828, now a China Time-Honored Brand.
Wang Zeng
Wang Zeng (王曾, courtesy name Xiaoxian, 978–1038) was a Song dynasty statesman who placed first in both state examinations and served as chancellor under Emperor Renzong.
Wang Zengqi
Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺, 1920–1997) was a Chinese writer of fiction, essays, and drama, a disciple of Shen Congwen whose 1980 story Receiving the Rule won wide readership.
Wang Zhang
Wang Zhang (王章) was a Chinese financial official of the Five Dynasties period who served as chief finance officer of Later Han and was killed with two regents in 950.
Wang Zhaojun
Wang Zhaojun (王昭君), personal name Qiang, was a Western Han palace lady given in marriage to the Xiongnu ruler Huhanye under the heqin marriage-alliance policy.
Wang Zhaowen
Wang Zhaowen (王朝闻, 1909–2004) was a Chinese sculptor, art theorist, and aesthetician, born in Hejiang, Sichuan, who helped found Marxist art theory in China and compiled its first aesthetics textbook, Aesthetics Introduction.
Wang Zhen
Wang Zhen (王镇), Chinese race walker born 1991 in Heilongjiang; 2016 Olympic 20 km walk champion (1:19:14), 2012 Olympic bronze, world silver 2011 and 2015, 20 km PB 1:17:36.
Wang Zhen (inventor)
Wang Zhen (王祯, 1260–1333) was a Yuan dynasty official who invented practical wooden movable type printing and wrote the Nong Shu, a survey of Chinese agriculture.
Wang Zheng
Wang Zheng (王政) was a Jin dynasty official of Bohai descent from Xiongyue who fought in the conquest campaigns, governed Huazhou, and died in 1138 aged 66.
Wang Zhi
Wang Zhi (王质), courtesy name Jingwen, was a Southern Song scholar-official (1135–1188) who passed the jinshi examination and wrote the Xueshan ji, Piao lun, and Shi Zongwen.
Wang Zhidong
Wang Zhidong (王志东), born 1967, is a Chinese software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Sina.com, led it to NASDAQ in 2000, and was ousted in 2001.
Wang Zhihe
Wang Zhihe is a Chinese Time-honored Brand of fermented bean curd founded in 1669 by a Qing-dynasty examination candidate credited with inventing stinky fermented tofu.
Wang Zhongrong
Wang Zhongrong (王重荣), died 887, was a Tang military governor of Hezhong who helped topple the rebel Huang Chao and later defied the eunuch Tian Lingzi.
Wang Zhongsi
Wang Zhongsi (王忠嗣), originally named Xun, was a Tang dynasty general who at his height held four military governorships under Emperor Xuanzong before dying in 749.
Wang Zhouyu
Wang Zhouyu (汪•周雨), Chinese Olympic weightlifter born 1994 in Yichang, Hubei; gold at Tokyo 2020 in women's 87 kg (270 kg total), world champion 2018 and 2019, personal bests 126/160/286 kg, later silver medalist at 81 kg.
Wang Zhuan
Wang Zhuan (王专) is a Chinese online-travel executive who co-founded Tongcheng in Suzhou in 2002 with his former student Wu Zhixiang, and serves as the group's Party Secretary.
Wang Zimu
Wang Zimu (王梓木), born 1953, is a Chinese insurance executive and member of the "92 school" who founded Huatai Insurance in 1996 and chaired it until 2022.