# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ying
# Generated: 2026-08-20T20:36:26.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ying"
name: "Michael Ying"
slug: "michael-ying"
description: "Michael Ying Lee Yuen is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Ying is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Esprit Holdings Limited, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with a 15% stake. Ying steadily reduced his majority stake in recent years, pocketing more than $2 billion. Ying has donated to various charitable organizations, and started the Yanai Foundation in 2006 to benefit medical and educational related initiatives."
tagline: "Hong Kong businessman"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.27
  momentum:             1.990995497748874
  historical:           3.525542666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  43
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ying"
    title: "Michael Ying"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "مایکل یینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%A2%E6%9D%8E%E3%B7%A7"
    title: "邢李㷧"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9072240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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