Famous people with the initials WY August 21, 2025 to September 10, 2025

member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

Wang #5

Waqar Younis

Pakistani cricketer

Wang Yafan

Chinese tennis player

Wang #8

Wei Yaxin

badminton player

#10

William G. Young

American judge

#11

Wu Yibing

Chinese tennis player

#12

Wang Yi

Wang #20

#13

Wang Yuwen

American-Mexican footballer

Wang #23

#14

William Paul Yarbrough

#15

William Allen Young

American actor

#16

Wang Yang

Wife of Jiang Zemin | former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

Wang #25

#17

Wang Yeping

Wang #27

#18

Wee Cho Yaw

Singaporean billionaire (1929–2024)

#19

Winfred Mutile Yavi

Bahraini athletics competitor

#20

Wei Yi

Chinese chess player

#21

Will Yip

multi-genre music producer | engineer | songwriter and musician

#22

Whitney Young

American civil rights leader

#23

Wang Yangming

Chinese philosopher and general

Wang #42

#24

Wang Yihan

badminton player

Wang #43

#25

Wendy Yoshimura

American painter

#26

Wang Yue

Chinese accident victim

Wang #46

#27

Wang Yudong

Chinese footballer (born 2006)

Wang #50

#28

Walter Yetnikoff

Music industry executive

Walter #145

#29

Wu Yanni

Chinese hurdler

#30

Wilson Yip

film director

#31

Wesley Yang

American essayist

#32

Wu Yue

Chinese actor

#33

Willie Young

Scottish footballer (born 1951)

#34

William P. Young

American writer

#35

Wu Yi

Vice Premier of China

#36

Wang Yaping

Chinese astronaut

Wang #68

#37

Wallace Yan

Brazilian footballer

#38

Wang Youcai

Tiananmen Square Student Leader

Wang #71

#39

Wang Yuanyuan

Chinese volleyball player

Wang #74

#40

William P. Yarborough

American general

#41

William Frederick Yeames

british painter

#42

Wakana Yamazaki

Japanese seiyū

#43

Wanda Young

American soprano

#44

Wong Yat-fei

Hong Kong actor

#45

Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi

Burmese actress

#46

Wang Yi

Reformed pastor of Chinese house church

Wang #87

#47

Wu Yize

Chinese snooker player

#48

Wakizaka Yasuharu

Japanese Daimyo

#49

Will Young

cricketer

#50

Willem van de Velde the Younger

Dutch painter

#51

William T. Young

American businessman

#52

Wayne Yip

British film director | screenwriter and film producer

#53

Wally Yamaguchi

Japanese wrestling manager

#54

Wang Yanlin

Chinese actor

Wang #105

#55

Wan Yuan

German table tennis player

#56

William Kwong Yu Yeung

Canadian astronomer

#57

William Young

New Zealand judge

#58

Wang Yang

Slovak table tennis player

Wang #111

#59

Wang Yidi

Chinese table tennis player

Wang #113

#60

Wei Yen

Chinese-American software developer and entrepreneur

#61

Wang Yuqing

Singaporean television personality

Wang #118

#62

William Yosses

White House chef

#63

William Lowndes Yancey

American politician

#64

Wen Yiduo

Chinese poet | scholar

#65

Willie Young

American gridiron football player

#66

Wang Yaowu

Chinese general

Wang #122

#67

Wang Yan

actress

Wang #123

#68

William of Ypres

Count of Flanders | supporter of King Stephen of England

#69

Wally Yonamine

American football running back

#70

Wang Yihan

Chinese figure skater

Wang #43

#71

Wu Yue

actor

#72

Wang Yu-Wen

Taiwanese actress

Wang #132

#73

Wang Yifang

physicist

Wang #134

#74

Wataru Yoshizumi

Japanese manga artist

#75

Wen Yunsong

Chinese businessman | son of Wen Jiabao

#76

Wang Yani

Chinese artist

Wang #138

#77

Wendell Young

Canadian ice hockey player

#78

Wong Yue

actor

#79

Wu Yajun

Chinese entrepreneur | businesswoman (CEO & chair of Longfor Properties) | billionaire

#80

Wang Yijin

Chinese singer | dancer and actress

Wang #146

#81

Wu Yanshu

former 6th richest woman in China | sentenced to death for financial fraud

#82

Wu Ying

#83

Wang Yilin

Major League Baseball player

Wang #160

#84

Walter Young

#85

Wu Yu

Chinese boxer

#86

Wong You-nam

Hong Kong actor

#87

William Youmans

American actor

Birdman

#88

Wei Yuan

Qing dynasty Chinese scholar

#89

Wong Yuk-man

Hong Kong politician (born 1951)

#90

Weber Yang

Taiwanese actor

#91

Wu Yanan

Chinese female martial artist (born 1996)

#92

Wan Yeung-ming

actor

#93

William Cornysh the Younger

English composer | dramatist | actor | and poet

#94

Wladimir Yordanoff

Monégasque actor

#95

Wang Yitang

Confederate States Army brigadier general

Wang #191

#96

William Hugh Young

#97

Wang Yirong

Chinese official and scholar

Wang #198

#98

Wendy Yu

Chinese heiress and philanthropist

#99

Willie York

American military personnel

#100

William Yang

Australian performing artist and photographer

#101

Will Yeatman

British peer and politician

#102

Welly Yang

Taiwanese American actor

#103

William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth

#104

Wang Yu-xuan

Taiwanese actress

#105

Waddy Young

American football player (1916-1945)

#106

Wong Yip Yan

Singaporean businessman

#107

William Young

American Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer

#108

William Yeager

American engineer

#109

William Henry Young

English mathematician

#110

Wang Yi-chuan

Taiwanese politician

#111

Wu Yingjie

Chinese aerospace engineer

#112

Wang Yongzhi

#113

Wang Yongmin

Chinese computer scientist

#114

Wu Yuxiang

Chinese martial artist

#115

Wichmann the Younger

German noble

#116

Wang Yeu-tzuoo

tennis player

#117

Wang Yuegu

Singaporean table tennis player

#118

Wu Yingxiong

Qing dynasty politician

#119

Wang Yubo

Chinese university president

#120

Wang Yousheng

Chinese engineer

#121

Wu Yi-Fang

#122

Wu Yuzhang

President of Renmin University of China

#123

Winnie Yu

Hong Kong radio personality

#124

Wu Yang

Chinese table tennis player

#125

Woo Yong-gak

North Korean commando | imprisoned in South Korea

#126

Waki Yamato

Japanese manga artist

#127

Wilbur Young

#128

Waldemar Young

screenwriter

#129

William Yang

Australian swimmer

#130

Walid Yacoubou

Togolese soccer player

#131

Weitao Yang

American chemist

#132

Wu Yingyin

Chinese singer

#133

Wang Ying

British and Australian politician

#134

Wakako Yamauchi

American writer

#135

Wang Yimei

volleyball player

#136

William Yates

#137

Waka Yamada

Japanese feminist

#138

Walter Young

American football wide receiver

#139

Willie Young

English zoologist | naturalist and bookseller

#140

Wai Young

Canadian politician

#141

William Yarrell

#142

Wu Yin

Founder of the Wing Lung Bank

#143

Wu Yee-sun

#144

Wu Youxun

Chinese physicist

#145

Wu Yonggang

Chinese film director

#146

Wan Yihwa

burmese-Korean singer (born 1997)

#147

Wade Young

enduro motorcyclist

#148

Wang Yan

gymnast

#149

Wang Yung-tsai

Taiwanese businessman

#150

Wu Yihui

Chinese martial artist

#151

Wäliulla Yaqupof

Russian Sunni ulani

#152

Wang Yun-wu

Chinese scholar and politician

#153

Wang Yu-chi

Taiwanese politician

#154

William Yardley

Quaker minister

#155

Wada Yoshimori

Japanese samurai

#156

Wang Yifu

sport shooter

#157

William J. Youden

American statistician

#158

Wardun Yusof

Bruneian footballer

#159

Wayne Yates

basketball player and coach

#160

Wang Yuan

Chinese mathematician (1930-2021)

#161

Wang Yungui

Yao businesswoman

#162

Warren Ybañez

Filipino basketball player

#163

Wang Yu

Chinese human rights lawyer

#164

Wei Yongli

Chinese sprinter

#165

Warren Young

Canadian ice hockey player

#166

Will Youmans

writer and activist

#167

Wu Yili

Chinese-Singaporean pianist

#168

Wolde Giyorgis Wolde Yohannes

Minister of the Pen | Interior and Justice

#169

Wu Yen-shu

Taiwanese footballer (born 1999)

#170

Win Wu YanHong

Musical Artist | Model | Actor | Presenter | & Lyricist

#171

William Yale

tin ware manufacturer from Connecticut (1784-1833)

#172

Wan Yanhai

Chinese activist

#173

Webster Young

American musician

#174

Wataru Yoshikawa

Japanese motorcycle racer

#175

Wang Ying

composer

#176

Wanchalerm Yingyong

Thai footballer

#177

William Youatt

English veterinarian

#178

William Young

Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross

#179

William Yate

Missionary | writer

#180

WinWin Yeung

Hong Kong singer

#181

Wang Yi

volleyballer

#182

Wang Yanyi

Chinese immunologist

#183

Wang Yiren

Chinese singer

#184

Wataru Yokoo

Japanese singer and actor

#185

Wang Ying

Chinese actor

#186

Warinrat Yongprasong

Thai Singer

#187

Wissem Ben Yahia

Tunisian association football player

#188

Wang Yinglai

Chinese biochemist

#189

William Young

Nova Scotia politician and jurist

#190

Wang Yuanqi

Chinese painter

#191

William Young

19th-century Scottish architect

#192

Willie Yeadon

English historian

#193

Wei Yili

badminton player

#194

Wandly Yazid

Singaporean composer

#195

Willie Young