# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lau-wai-hing-emily
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:34:59.411Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lau-wai-hing-emily"
name: "Lau Wai Hing Emily"
slug: "lau-wai-hing-emily"
description: "Emily Lau Wai-hing is a Hong Kong politician. A former journalist, she became the first woman directly elected on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 1991 LegCo elections. She has served as Legislative Councillor for the New Territories East Constituency throughout the 1990s and 2000s until she stepped down in 2016. She was chairperson of the Democratic Party of Hong Kong until 2016."
tagline: "Chinese journalist and politician in Hong Kong"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emily_Lau_Wai-hing_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.23
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.34763066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.emilylau.org.hk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E6%85%A7%E5%8D%BF"
    title: "劉慧卿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "إميلي ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "اميلى ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89"
    title: "এমিলি লাউ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau_Wai-hing"
    title: "Emily Lau Wai-hing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%83_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Лау Вайхин, Эмили"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Lau"
    title: "Emily Lau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E6%85%A7%E5%8D%BF"
    title: "劉慧卿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q698557"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump