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Ding Hemu

Ding Hemu (丁和木), born 1937, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Anta, China's leading sportswear company, from a family shoe workshop in Jinjiang, Fujian, in 1991.

Ding Jiantong

Ding Jiantong (丁建通), born in 1940, is a Chinese entrepreneur from Chendai, Jinjiang, Fujian, who in 1983 founded the family shoe workshop that became the sportswear company 361 Degrees.

Ding Jing

Ding Jing (丁敬, 1695–1765) was a Chinese seal carver, calligrapher, and poet of the Qing dynasty who founded the Zhe school of seal carving and led the Xiling Eight Masters.

Sep 17, 2026

Ding Junhui (丁俊晖), born 1987 in Yixing, Jiangsu, is a Chinese professional snooker player, former world number one, 15-time ranking event winner, 2016 World Championship finalist, and pioneer of snooker in China.

Sep 17, 2026

Ding Ling (丁玲)

Ding Ling (丁玲), pen name of Jiang Wei (蒋伟, courtesy Bingzhi), 1904–1986, Chinese feminist and Marxist writer; author of Miss Sophie's Diary and the Stalin Prize-winning The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River; persecuted 1955–1979, rehabilitated 1984.

Sep 17, 2026

Ding Liren (丁立人)

Ding Liren (丁立人), born 1992 in Wenzhou, is a Chinese chess grandmaster and the 17th FIDE World Chess Champion, the first from China in the open category; he won the 2023 Astana match against Nepomniachtchi and lost the 2024 title match to Gukesh.

Oct 21, 2026

Ding Meiyuan

Ding Meiyuan (丁美媛), Chinese super-heavyweight weightlifter born 1979 in Jinzhou, Liaoning; won Sydney 2000 +75 kg gold with the first 300 kg women's total, set multiple world records, and was IWF Best Female Weightlifter 1999.

Ding Mingliang

Ding Mingliang (丁明亮) was a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the Deerhui sports-shoe brand in Jinjiang, Fujian, best known for its decade-long Jay Chou endorsement; he died in 2011.

Ding Ning

Ding Ning (丁宁, born 1982) is the Chinese founder of Yucheng Group and its Ezubao lending platform, convicted in 2017 of a $9 billion Ponzi scheme.

Ding Richang

Ding Richang (丁日昌, 1823–1882) was a Qing dynasty official and artillery manufacturer from Fengshun, Guangdong, who rose from militia organizer to governor of Jiangsu and Fujian.

Ding Ruchang

Ding Ruchang (丁汝昌, 1836–1895) was a Qing dynasty admiral who commanded the Beiyang Fleet and died by poison at the siege of Weihai in 1895.

Ding Shizhong

Ding Shizhong (丁世忠) is a Chinese entrepreneur, co-founder and chairman of Anta Sports, China's largest sports company, which he began selling sneakers at age 16 in 1987.

Ding Shui Po

Ding Shuibo (丁水波) is a Chinese businessman who founded Xtep, the Hong Kong-listed sportswear group, starting a shoe workshop in Jinjiang in 1987 and building it into a brand.

Ding Siqiang

Ding Siqiang (丁思强) is a Chinese sportswear entrepreneur who began making shoes in Jinjiang, Fujian, in 1993 and led Meike International Holdings, a Hong Kong-listed sportswear maker, until 2016.

Ding ware

Ding ware (Ding yao) is Chinese white porcelain made at Quyang, Hebei, from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty, and one of the Song dynasty's Five Great Kilns.

Ding Ware Boy Pillow

The Ding ware boy pillow is a white porcelain headrest shaped as a recumbent boy, made at the Ding kilns of China's Northern Song dynasty (960–1127).

Ding Wei

Ding Wei (丁谓, 966–1037) was a Song dynasty statesman and financier who became chief councillor under Emperor Zhenzong, directed the court's great building projects, and died in exile.

Ding Wuhao

Ding Wuhao (丁伍号) is a Chinese sportswear executive, Executive Director and President of 361 Degrees International Limited, the Jinjiang, Fujian-based sportswear group listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, since 2008.

Oct 20, 2026

Ding Xia

Ding Xia (丁霞), born 1990 in Shijiazhuang, is a Chinese volleyball setter, Liaoning club player, and 2016 Olympic and 2015/2019 World Cup champion, named best setter of the 2019 World Cup Dream Team.

Oct 21, 2026

Ding Xinyi

Ding Xinyi (丁欣怡; born 2004) is a Chinese rhythmic gymnast who won gold in the group all-around at the 2024 Paris Olympics, China's first rhythmic gymnastics gold.

Sep 21, 2026

Ding Xue

Ding Xue, also known as Xue Ding, is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for research on programmed cell death in C. elegans.

Ding Yongqiang

Ding Yongqiang (丁永强), born 1980 in Suizhou, Hubei, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Growatt in Shenzhen, which became the world's largest household solar inverter provider by 2021 shipments.

Ding Yunpeng

Ding Yunpeng (丁云鹏, 1547–after 1628) was a Chinese painter of the late Ming dynasty from Xiuning, Anhui, best known for Buddhist and Daoist figures and fine-line baimiao drawing.

Oct 15, 2026

Ding-A-Ling (robot)

Ding-A-Lings were a line of battery-powered toy robots produced by Topper Toys of Elizabeth, New Jersey, from 1971, which walked using a removable power pack; the 14-inch King Ding led the line.

Ding-Hua Hu

Ding-Hua Hu (胡定华, also romanized Hu Ting-hua; 1943–2019) was a Taiwanese electrical engineer who, as founding director of ITRI's ERSO in Hsinchu, led the 1976 RCA technology transfer that seeded Taiwan's IC industry.

Ding-Yuan Yang

Ding-Yuan Yang (楊丁元) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and semiconductor executive who led ITRI's 1976 RCA integrated-circuit training group and founded Winbond Electronics in 1987, serving as its president until 1999.

Ding'an

Ding'an (定安國) was a small tenth-century state founded by Balhae remnants in the Yalu River basin after the Khitan destroyed Balhae; Liao destroyed it in 986.