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Yang Jiang (杨绛)
Yang Jiang (杨绛, born Yang Jikang 杨季康, 1911–2016) was a Chinese writer, translator, and foreign-literature scholar, wife of Qian Zhongshu; author of Xizao, Women Sa, and Ganxiao Liuji and translator of Don Quixote.
Yang Jiayu
Yang Jiayu (杨家玉, born 1996) is a Chinese race walker, world record holder in the women's 20 km walk (1:23:49, 2021), 2017 world champion, and 2024 Paris Olympic gold medallist.
Yang Jie
Yang Jie (杨杰) was a Song dynasty official and scholar from Wuwei who specialized in state rites and music under the emperors Shenzong and Zhezong.
Yang Jing
Yang Jing (杨璟) was a Ming dynasty general from Hefei who served the Hongwu Emperor, conquering Hunan and Guangxi, serving as envoy to Xia, and being enfeoffed Marquis of Yingyang.
Yang Jinghui
Yang Jinghui (楊景輝, born 1983, Guangzhou) is a retired Chinese platform diver. He won gold in men's synchronized 10 m platform with Tian Liang at Athens 2004 (383.88 points), silver at the 2005 Montreal Worlds, and retired in 2005 with a shoulder injury.
Yang Jiong
Yang Jiong (杨炯) was a Tang-dynasty poet and official from Huayin who entered office through the child-prodigy examination and is remembered as one of the Four Paragons.
Yang Jisheng
Yang Jisheng (杨继盛, 1516–1555) was a Ming dynasty official from Rongcheng in Zhili, remembered as one of the dynasty's most celebrated remonstrators for his memorial demanding the execution of grand secretary Yan Song.
Yang Jun (internet entrepreneur)
Yang Jun (杨俊) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, born in 1984, who co-founded the social network Xiaonei, was Meituan's vice president of sales, and founded Songshu Pinpin.
Yang Kaihui (杨开慧)
Yang Kaihui (杨开慧, 1901–1930), courtesy name Yunjin, early CCP woman member and Mao Zedong's wife; executed by He Jian's forces at Changsha in 1930; remembered as the 'proud poplar' (骄杨) martyr.
Yang Ke
Yang Ke is a Chinese cancer geneticist, Director of the Laboratory of Genetics at Peking University Cancer Hospital and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine.
Yang Kuan
Yang Kuan (杨宽), courtesy name Jingren, was an official and military governor of the Northern and Southern dynasties, serving Northern Wei, Western Wei, and Northern Zhou.
Yang Kui
Yang Kui (楊逵), born Yang Gui, was a Taiwanese novelist, editor, and social activist who led left-wing literature in Japanese-ruled Taiwan; his story "The Newspaper Boy" was the first by a Taiwanese writer recognized in Japan.
Yang Kyoungjong (양경종)
Yang Kyoungjong (양경종) is the name attached to a Korean allegedly conscripted into the Japanese, Soviet, and German armies and captured at Utah Beach on D-Day; historians and a 2005 SBS documentary found no evidence he existed.
Yang Li
Yang Li is a Chinese-born computational biologist who studies immune and infectious diseases by integrating multi-omics data, and directs the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine in Hannover.
Yang Lian (Ming dynasty Confucian official)
Yang Lian (杨廉, 1452–1525) was a Ming dynasty Confucian official and scholar from Fengcheng who served under four emperors, from Chenghua to Jiajing, retiring as Minister of Rites.
Yang Lian (Ming dynasty official)
Yang Lian (杨涟) was a Ming dynasty official who rose to vice censor-in-chief and died under torture in 1625 after accusing the eunuch Wei Zhongxian of crimes.
Yang Lijuan
Yang Lijuan (杨利娟), born 1978 in Sichuan, is a Chinese restaurant executive who rose from waitress to chief executive of the hot pot chain Haidilao.
Yang Ling
Yang Ling (杨凌), Chinese shooter born 1972 in Beijing; won men's 10 m running target gold at Atlanta 1996 (685.8, Olympic record) and Sydney 2000 (681.1), the first shooter to defend that Olympic title.
Yang Lingang 杨㟀罡
Yang Lingang, also known as Alston, is a Chinese finance entrepreneur and Peking University graduate who co-founded the Beijing internet gold investment platform G-banker, which collapsed in 2020.
Yang Liu
Yang Liu (刘阳) is an immunologist who co-founded the Rockville, Maryland biotech OncoImmune, sold to Merck in 2020 for $425 million, and now leads spin-out OncoC4.
Yang Man-chun
Yang Man-chun (양만춘) is the name tradition gives the Goguryeo commander of Ansi fortress, who repelled Tang emperor Taizong's siege in 645, though early sources leave him nameless.
Yang Mi (杨幂)
Yang Mi (杨幂, born 1986) is a Beijing-born Chinese actress, singer, and producer, a Beijing Film Academy graduate famous for Palace (2011) and Eternal Love, co-founder of Jaywalk Media, and a 2025 Magnolia nominee for This Thriving Land.
Yang Min-hyeok (양민혁)
Yang Min-hyeok (양민혁) is a South Korean footballer who rose to prominence at Gangwon FC before joining Tottenham Hotspur in 2025, and now plays for KVC Westerlo.
Yang Ming Marine Transport
Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation (阳明海运) is a Taiwanese container shipping line founded in 1972, ranked ninth worldwide with roughly 98 vessels and 730,000 TEU of capacity.
Yang Minggui
Yang Minggui (杨明贵) is a Chinese consumer-electronics entrepreneur who was general manager of Subor, helped found BBK in 1995, and founded the VCD maker Jinzheng in Dongguan in 1997.
Yang Mo
Yang Mo (杨沫), born Yang Chengye, was a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose 1958 novel Song of Youth became one of China's most widely read red classics.
Yang Mu
Yang Mu (楊牧) was the pen name of Wang Ching-hsien, a Taiwanese poet and essayist born in Hualien in 1940 who fused Chinese classical tradition with Western literature.
Yang Ningshi
Yang Ningshi (杨凝式) was a Chinese calligrapher and official of the late Tang and Five Dynasties period, nicknamed "Yang the Madman" for his unrestrained behavior.
Yang Pengnian
Yang Pengnian (杨彭年) was a Chinese Yixing zisha potter of the Qing dynasty, best known for making the Mansheng pots designed by the scholar Chen Hongshou.
Yang Pu
Yang Pu (杨仆) was a Western Han general under Emperor Wu who led the naval forces that conquered Nanyue and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Jiangliang.