# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ip-man
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:50:58.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ip-man"
name: "Ip Man"
slug: "ip-man"
description: "The Wing Chun master who taught Bruce Lee — a lineage that turned a regional Chinese fighting style into a global phenomenon."
tagline: "Hong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yip_Man.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CN"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
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birthDate: "1893-10-01"
deathDate: "1972-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6786671131949096
  historical:           26.11676133333334
  currentAttention:     17.41296420331919
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  149
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "other"
  - name: "20th Century"
    slug: "20th-century"
platforms:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Ip Kai-man on 1 October 1893, he began teaching Wing Chun at twenty, spending decades refining a martial art that might have remained obscure. His school in Hong Kong produced a generation of fighters who carried the style forward, but one student reshaped the equation entirely: Bruce Lee, whose fame retroactively spotlighted the teacher. Ip Man died on 2 December 1972, his legacy sealed not by his own celebrity but by the supernova success of the young man he'd trained.